My thanks to my colleague Jonathan Pepperman for this. He had it all Alex Harvey Paradise Lost: A Life of F. Scott Fitzgerald by David S. Brown Harvard, 424 pp, £21.95, May 2017, ISBN 978 0 674 50482 0 ‘I’d Die for You’ and Other …
Tag: Great Gatsby
Gatsby: An African American issue
I thought I would write a short article instead of a teaching aid to cover this discussion. Hopefully students will read this and let their research and wider reading fill in any gaps in my narrative. I am aiming at …
Gatsby: A queer theory stimulus
Queer theory is a developing field and there are complex nuances and variations to any approach. Here I look at The Great Gatsby, led by Lois Tyson's Literary Criticism Today. I teach Gatsby alongside Huck Finn and this will be …
Gatsby: Feminist Stimulus
I wrote this a while ago. I still stand by it, though I want to ensure that students are introduced to Feminism in a broader sense and also begin to recognise a Patriarchal Agenda when they come across it. I …
Gatsby : A Marxist stimulus
I am writing some stimulus PowerPoints to explore critical readings of Gatsby as part of my prep for A level American Literature (OCR). In the creation of these powerpoints, I have leaned extensively on Lois Tyson: Critical Theory Today - …
Jordan Baker: careless driver, cheat and … Gatsby’s source?
We were reading Chapter 3 today and an idea grew which is worth considering even if only to reject: Jordan is Gatsby's way in to regaining Daisy. how else would he know to invite Nick, let alone to 'recognise' him …
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Introducing the American Literature element for OCR A level.
This year we are changing from Dystopia to American Literature for our first cohort of through-taught A level students. I will be placing my teaching materials on the blog as I write them. A screencast can be found here Introducing …
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