I’ve pasted in the suggestions from the website: www.e-rudite.net that has more than the blog. I’m going to colour in blue the ones I might choose but obviously whatever takes your fancy (to use a Coleridge word). There are other more general suggestions on http://www.e-rudite.net/aosresources.htm. Just follow the link at the top of the page to Related Material.
My aim is to answer students questions in a way that is helpful to them so feel free any time.
With Coleridge you’re looking for the creativity of an artist, so either the thinking about it, the process or the creative expression itself. At the end is a link to two ABC websites that have writers taking about their craft.
Suggestions for related material:
Fiction
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones A girl dies violently and looks on the passing years and her family from heaven.
Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland Do the book not the Disney film. Carroll annotated it so you have text, illustration and annotations which makes it an interesting text to impress markers with.
Michael Cunningham, The Hours
Jack Kerouac, On the Road
Oscar Wilde, The Portrait of Dorian Gray This is a journey in time focusing on a man who makes a pact with the devil to stay young and beautiful whilst a portrait increasing reflects his sinning self. It’s Edwardian but it’s a novella and not that long. A Classic.
Non-fiction
Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
Graphic novel and picture books
Jeannie Baker, The Window This is one of the most beautiful picture books in which the world changes through a single window frame on every page. You ‘read’ the details she selects.
Art Spiegelman, Maus
Raymond Briggs, When the wind Blows
John Marsden and Shaun Tan, The Rabbits This represents the invasion of Australia (rabbits/the Bristish) through the eyes of the original inhabitants and takes us on a journey through time and change. The text and the images are the imaginative side of it.
Shaun Tan, The Lost Thing
Film
Finding Neverland, dir. Marc Forster
A Prairie Home Companion, dir. Robert Altman
The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, dir. Spike Jonze This is about memory and it moves through time in a highly unusual manner. The script is on the web. It is excellent but also challenging.
Online resources
Books and Writing, transcripts of writers interviewed on their craft, http://www.abc.net.au/rn/arts/bwriting/
Writers and Writing, radio programme with podcasts available, http://www.barbarademarcobarrett.com/writersonwriting/index.html
Judy
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