PRESCRIBED TEXT LIST
FOR USE IN 2016
ENL315114 English Literature
Note: to deliver this course appropriately, selections of texts from the prescribed text lists must be
made as detailed below and as required in the course document. The inclusion on a list of any
particular text is not a rule that this particular text must be taught or studied.
Module One – Texts in Context
The sets of poems will have the following unifying themes:
Year
Focus
2015
2016
2017
2018
Loss
Journey NOT
Journey
Love
Love
Loss
Loss
Journey
AVAILABLE
Prescribed Poetry Text List: Select One Set (Either Love or Journey, but not
Loss) for 2016:
Love
(2016)
Loss
Poet
Marvell, Andrew
Browning, Elizabeth
Text
‘To His Coy Mistress’
‘Sonnets from the Portuguese’
X111
‘La Belle Dame sans Merci’
‘Woman to Man’
‘Gifts’
‘You’re Beautiful’
Keats, John
Wright, Judith
Oodgeroo Noonuccal
Armitage, Simon
Poet
Shakespeare, William
Jonson, Ben
Tennyson, Alfred
Bronte, Emily
Either
T
Harwood, Gwen
NO
Or
McAuley, James
Oodgeroo Noonuccal
Prescribed Text List for Use in 2016
Text
Sonnet XXX
‘On my First Sonne’ and ‘On my First
Daughter’
Section VII from ‘In Memoriam’ (‘Dark
E by which once more I
Lhouse,
B
stand…’)
ILA ‘Remembrance’
A
AV
Either
‘Suburban Sonnet’
Or
‘Pieta’
‘Last of His Tribe’
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Poet
Chaucer, Geoffrey
Journey
(2016)
Text
‘The Prologue’ from ‘The Canterbury
Tales’
‘Ulysses’
‘The Journey of the Magi’
‘because I could not stop for death’
‘Beach Burial’
‘The Ship’
Tennyson, Alfred
Eliot, T.S.
Dickinson, Emily
Slessor, Kenneth
Day, Sarah
The Prescribed Text Lists Below Relate to:
• Module Two. Total texts to be studied = 1
• Module Three (List A, B and C, noting that while the study of C is optional, if chosen the text must be from
the prescribed list). Total texts to be studied = 2 (or 3)
• Module Four – Independent Study. Total texts to be studied = 1 (or 2)
Summary of Module Requirements
Module Two – Single Text Study
Study: students will undertake an in-depth study of ONE substantial text.
Module Three – Comparative Text Study
Study: Students will study TWO substantial texts. The texts studied will be one from each of A and B. An
optional third text may be selected from C.
A
Select one
text from:
AND
Novel
Drama/Play
B
Select one
corresponding text
from:
Film
Drama/Play
Novel
AND
(Optional)
C - OPTIONAL
Select one OPTIONAL
corresponding text from:
Poetry*
Film
Short story
* If poetry is selected for the optional study in Module Three C, the poem/s must be selected from:
• the current Prescribed Poetry Text List
• a unifying theme not studied in Module One.
Module Four – Independent Study
Study: one or two substantial texts.
RULE: the same text cannot be used in more than one (1) Module.
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Prescribed Substantial Literary Texts: Novels
Author
Austen, Jane
Barker, Pat
Boo, Katherine
Brontë, Emily
Carey, Peter
Clements, Nicholas
Fitzgerald, F Scott
Flanagan, Richard
Funder, Anna
Garner, Helen
Grenville, Kate
Hardy, Thomas
Hosseini, Khaled
Ishiguro, Kazuo
Kent, Hannah
McEwan, Ian
Otsuk, Julie
Roy, Arundhati
Shelley, Mary
Wilson, Rohan
Title
Persuasion
Regeneration
Behind the Beautiful Forevers (non-fiction)
Wuthering Heights
Amnesia
The Black War: Fear, Sex and Resistance in Tasmania
(non-fiction)
The Great Gatsby*
The Narrow Road to the Deep North
All That I Am
The House of Grief (non-fiction)
The Secret River
Tess of the D’Urbervilles*
The Kite Runner*
Never Let Me Go
Burial Rites
The Children Act
The Buddha in the Attic
The God of Small Things
Frankenstein
The Roving Party
*marked texts will not appear on the 2017 list. This does not imply that no other texts will be deleted from
this part of the 2017 list.
Note: For the purposes of this list, we have taken the term ‘novel’ to mean a substantial literary text that may be a
substantial fiction literary text or a substantial non-fiction literary text.
Prescribed Substantial Literary Texts: Plays
Author
Bean, Richard
Brecht, Bertolt
Churchill, Caryl
Cornelius, Patricia
Davis, Jack
Miller, Arthur
Mulvany, Kate and Anne-Louise
Sparks
Sophocles
Shakespeare, William
Williams, Tennessee
Title
The Heretic
The Good Person of Szechuan
Love and Information
The Call
Kullark OR No Sugar
Death of a Salesman
Medea after Euripides
Antigone*
The Tempest OR King Lear
A Streetcar Named Desire
*marked texts will not appear on the 2017 list. This does not imply that no other texts will be deleted from
this part of the 2017 list.
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Shakespearean plays
Year
Texts
2015
Othello OR The Tempest
NOT AVAILABLE
2016
The Tempest OR King Lear
2017
King Lear OR Richard III
2018
Richard III OR Hamlet
Prescribed Substantial Literary Texts: Films
Director
Allen, Woody
González Iñárritu, Alejandro
Fabian, Anthony
Henckel von Donnersmarck,
Florian
Hogan, P. J.
Jonze, Spike
Kazan, Elia
Perkins, Rachel
Scott, Ridley
Teplitzky, Jonathan
Title
Blue Jasmine
Babel
Skin
The Lives of Others
Muriel’s Wedding
Her
On the Waterfront (1954 B & W)
One Night the Moon
Blade Runner (Director’s Cut)*
The Railway Man
*marked texts will not appear on the 2017 list. This does not imply that no other texts will be deleted from
this part of the 2017 list.
Other Prescribed Literary Texts: Short Stories/Essays for Module
Three C (only)
These texts are for use in Module Three C (only). In Module Three C an optional third text may be studied. If
a short story/an essay is selected, these texts must come from the list below. A student may NOT use the
texts in this list in the external assessment (including external assessment of Module 4).
Author
Adichie, Chimamanda
Crane, Ralph and Danielle
Wood (eds)
Le, Nam
Pung, Alice (Ed.)
Proulx, Annie
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Title
The Thing Around Your Neck
Deep South
The Boat
Growing Up Asian in Australia
Wyoming Stories
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Other Prescribed Literary Texts: Additional Texts for Module
Four (only)
In addition to the substantial literary texts in the prescribed lists above (novel, play and film) the following
texts/poets may be selected for use in Module Four (only).
Note:
§ short stories/essays will not be selected for use in Module Four
§ a student may not use any of the Module Four (only) texts listed below in the examination
component of the external assessment (i.e. they are available only for use in the folio)
§ texts selected for Module Four from the substantial literary texts in the prescribed lists above
(novel, play and film) will not be those studied in any other Module.
Author
Title
Cats Eye
Atwood Margaret
Paradise Road
Beresford, Bruce (dir)
The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Hamid, Moshin
Ransom
Malouf, David
The Hunter
Nettheim, Daniel (dir)
Oranges are not the Only Fruit
Winterson, Janette
Poets
Armitage, Simon
Harwood, Gwen
Scott, Margaret
Slessor, Kenneth
Wagan-Watson, Samuel
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