ENS315109 ENGLISH STUDIES
PRESCRIBED AND SUGGESTED TEXT LIST 2012
TQA Text Selection Guidelines
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Approximately 25 - 30% of the texts in both ENC315109 and ENS315109 will change
each year
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A new text will have a minimum of 2 years on a list (unless – in the experience of
delivery – serious issues are raised regarding its suitability)
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A text removed from a list will have a minimum of 2 years ‘rest’ off the list
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There will be minimal overlap between ENC315109 and ENS315109 texts
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TQA-issued invitations for suggestions/comment on text lists:
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are to be answered by a provider/campus (rather than an individual teacher)
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a ‘nil response’ will not be considered a “vote for the status quo”
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must be accompanied by a rationale that addresses the:
• needs of learners
• nature/scope/philosophy of the course and its assessment procedures
• merit of the title under consideration.
Process
Each year the TQA will invite providers to make recommendations, suggestions and
comments regarding the deletion/addition of texts. A panel of experts appointed by the TQA
will consider these in light of the rationale provided. The panel’s membership will include
relevant Chief Marking and Setting Examiners whenever possible.
The panel will recommend a ‘draft’ text list to the TQA.
This ‘draft’ text list will be published and providers will be invited to comment on the draft list.
Comments made in this second round will focus on issues such as: significant imbalance
within parts of the list (eg regarding text-type, gender of writers, historical context);
inappropriateness of a text to the senior secondary sector; and availability of texts (eg out-ofprint). It is not the purpose of this round of comment to seek recommendations for new texts
or to provide an opportunity for a provider to advocate for the retention of texts: these should
be done in the first round.
The panel will be asked to consider relevant comments and a final ‘draft’ list will be
developed. This list will be recommended to the TQA. Final decisions regarding text lists are
made by the TQA.
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TEXTS FOR CORE STUDY
POETRY
L OVE
8 Love Poems for Close Study
Donne ............................. ‘The Sunne Rising’
Elizabeth Browning ......... ‘Sonnets from the Portuguese’ X111
ee cummings .................. Sonnet ‘it may not always be so’
Marvell............................ ‘To His Coy Mistress’
Ted Hughes ……………...‘Your Paris’
Margaret Scott ................ ‘In the Garden’
Keats……………….…….. ‘La Belle Dame sans Merci’
Gwen Harwood……….… ‘Dichterliebe’
Other Poems on Love
Chaucer .......................... The Canterbury Tales – ‘The Wife of Bath’
(Coghill translation), Penguin edition extracts:
p. 300 ‘Now it so happened, I began to say....Sufficient answer, then you
shall return’
p. 303 ‘A fouler-looking creature I suppose....He takes his ancient wife
and goes to bed’
p. 309 ‘You say I’m old and fouler than a fen....God send them soon a
very pestilence.’
Shakespeare................... Sonnet 18, ‘Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day?’
Bruce Dawe .................... ‘Then’
Blake .............................. ‘The Sick Rose’
‘The Garden of Love’
Taufiq Rafat .................... ‘Poem 4’ (The Time to Love)
Cole Porter ..................... ‘You’re the Top’
TS Eliot........................... ‘La Figlia Che Piange’
Robert Graves ................ ‘A Slice of Wedding Cake’
Kenneth Slessor ............. ‘Polarities’
Judith Wright................... ‘Woman to Man’
Oodgeroo Noonuccal ...... ‘Gifts’
St Paul............................ 1 Corinthians 13 1 – 13
L OSS
8 Loss Poems for Close Study
Ben Jonson..................... ‘On my First Son’
Wordsworth .................... Ode: ‘Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of early Childhood’
Thomas Hardy ................ ‘At Castle Boterel’
W.H. Auden .................... ‘Stop all the clocks’
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Seamus Heaney ............. ‘Death of a Naturalist’
Oodgeroo of the Tribe Noonuccal ……..‘Last of his Tribe’
Sylvia Plath…………. ‘Daddy’
Wilfred Owen………… ‘Disabled’
Other Poems on Loss
Les Murray ..................... 'Widower in the Country'
Gerard Manley Hopkins . …….. ‘Binsey Poplars’
Oodgeroo of the Tribe Noonuccal ………….. ‘The Past’
Judith Wright .................. ‘Finale’
Philip Hodgins ................ ‘Shooting the Dogs’
Elizabeth Bishop ............ ‘One Art’
Gwen Harwood .............. ‘Suburban Sonnet’
Vance Palmer ................ ‘The Farmer remembers the Somme’
A D Hope ....................... ‘The Death of the Bird’
Anne Sexton .................. ‘ For my lover returning to his wife’
Bruce Dawe ................... ‘Katrina’
James McAuley .............. ‘Pieta’
Gwen Harwood…………. ‘At Mornington’
J OURNEY
8 Journey Poems for Close Study
Sarah Day ……….. ‘The Ship’
Geoffrey Chaucer ………. ‘The Prologue’ from The Canterbury Tales
Emily Dickinson ……….. ‘because I could not stop for death’
T S Eliot ………… ‘The Journey of the Magi’
Peter Skrzynecki ……….. ‘Crossing the Red Sea’
Alfred Lord Tennyson ……..‘Ulysses’
Judith Wright…………… ‘The Sanctuary’
Coleridge……………… ‘Frost at Midnight’
Other Poems on Journey
T S Eliot …………. ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’
Robert Frost ………. ‘Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening’
Seamus Heaney ……….. ‘Follower’
Philip Larkin ……….. ‘The Whitsun Weddings’
Mary Oliver …………… ‘The Journey’
Ann Sexton ………….. ‘Unknown Girl in the Maternity Ward’
Kenneth Slessor ……….. ‘Beach Burial’
Tim Thorne …………… ‘A letter to Egon Kisch’
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Judith Wright …….. ‘Naked Girl and Mirror’
C P Cavafy …………. ‘Ithaca’
Gwen Harwood……. ‘Father and Child’ (both ‘Barn Own’ and ‘Nightfall’)
F ULFILMENT *
8 Fulfilment Poems for Close Study
Andrew Marvell ............... ‘To His Coy Mistress’
Shelley............................ ‘Ozymandias’
Tennyson ........................ ‘Ulysses’
Coleridge ........................ ‘Frost at Midnight’
Sylvia Plath..................... ‘The Applicant’
Oodgeroo of the Tribe Noonuccal………… ‘Gifts’
John Tranter ................... ‘North Light’
Margaret Scott ................ ‘Mending a Dress’
Other Poems on Fulfilment
Cavafy ............................ ‘Ithaka’
Owen .............................. ‘Dulce et Decorum Est’
Wordsworth .................... ‘I Wandered Lonely…’
Heaney ........................... ‘Digging’
Murray ............................ ‘Noonday Axeman’
Wright ............................. ‘Woman to Child’
Harwood ......................... ‘Mother Who Gave me Life’
(NB. These poems are readily available via the internet and several are published in ‘Blue Light,
Clear Atoms’.)
* N OTE: THIS THEME TO BE REMOVED IN 2013
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PRESCRIBED TEXT LIST
NOVEL :
Emma – Jane Austen
Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
The Great Gatsby – Scott Fitzgerald
* Purple Hibiscus – Chimamanda Adichie
The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
* The Book Thief – Markus Zusak
* An Imaginary Life – David Malouf
Wanting – Richard Flanagan
* The Weekend – Bernhard Schlink
One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey
The Namesake - Jhumpa Lahiri
The Shipping News - A E Proulx
Gilead – Marilynne Robinson (2005)
The Tiger’s Wife - Tea Obreht (2011)
Traitor – Stephen Daisley (2011)
Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
Freedom – Jonathan Franzen (2010)
Parrot and Olivier in America - Peter Carey
DRAMA :
Antigone – Sophocles
Hamlet, Othello, Julius Caesar – William Shakespeare
Accidental Death of an Anarchist – Dario Fo
* The Royal Hunt of the Sun – Peter Shaffer
Saint Joan -George Bernard Shaw
Bombshells – Joanna Murray-Smith
Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo - Rajiv Joseph
August: Osage County – Tracy Letts
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead – Tom Stoppard
* These texts will not to appear on 2013 list. This does not imply that no other texts will be
deleted from the 2013 list.
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POETS :
T S Eliot
Les Murray
Wilfred Owen
W B Yeats
Sarah Day
Jennifer Maiden
Carole Ann Duffy
FILM :
Sophie Scholl – Marc Rothemund
* Jindabyne – Ray Lawrence
Slumdog Millionaire - Danny Boyle & Loveleen Tandan
Shakespeare in Love - John Madden
Blade Runner (Director’s Cut) – Ridley Scott
Elizabeth - Shekhar Kapur
The King’s Speech – Tom Hooper (2010)
Clueless – Amy Heckerling (1997)
NON -FICTION :
The Life You Can Save – Peter Singer
If this be a Man – Primo Levi
* Joe Cinque’s Consolation – Helen Garner
The Ghost at the Wedding - Shirley Walker
A Room of One’s Own – Virginia Woolf
SHORT STORY :
The Thing Around Your Neck – Chimamanda Adichie
The Rip – Robert Drewe
The Illustrated Man – Ray Bradbury
Island - Alistair MacLeod
Dark Roots – Kate Kennedy (2006)
The Boat – Nam Le (2009)
* These texts will not to appear on 2013 list. This does not imply that no other texts will be
deleted from the 2013 list.
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ADDITIONAL TEXT LIST FOR INDEPENDENT STUDY
THESE MAY BE USED AS FOCUS TEXTS FOR INDEPENDENT STUDIES BUT ARE NOT DEFINED AS ʻCORE
TEXTSʼ FOR EXAMINATION PURPOSES.
NOVEL:
Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
Remembering Babylon – David Malouf
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis de Bernieres
Atonement – Ian McEwan
Girl with a Pearl Earring – Tracy Chevalier
The Road – Cormac McCarthy
A Thousand Splendid Suns – Khaled Hosseini
The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver
Remarkable Creature – Tracy Chevalier
Mister Pip – Lloyd Jones
The Lieutenant - Kate Grenville
DRAMA:
Stolen – Jane Harrison
The Importance of Being Earnest – Oscar Wilde
When the Rain Stops Falling - Andrew Bovell
The Gift – Joanna Murray-Smith
POETS:
Emily Dickinson
Gwen Harwood
Seamus Heaney
Sylvia Plath
Alfred Tennyson
Judith Wright
FILM:
* The Black Balloon – 2008 Elissa Down
The Matrix – Andy Wachowski and Larry Wachowski
As it is in Heaven – Kay Pollak
Lost in Translation - Sofia Coppola
* This text will not to appear on 2013 list. This does not imply that no other texts will be
deleted from the 2013 list.
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