Extension English 1 

Online resources for various Electives

Module A: Genre

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genre_fiction http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literary_genre

 http://poprocksandcharlotte.deviantart.com/art/The-Genres-of-Crime-Writing-103933668  

Introduction to genre theory: http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Documents/intgenre/intgenre1.html  

Literary fiction genres: http://www.cuebon.com/ewriters/genres.html  

Genre studies: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genre_studies  

• Life Writing

HSC Online: http://www.hsc.csu.edu.au/english/extension1/genre/elect1/3744/life_intro.htm#life

http://fhrc.flinders.edu.au/research_groups/life_writing/definition.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_writing

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autobiography

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memoir

A glossary of terms: http://books.google.com.au/books?id=SdWrdb9oUCsC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Life+writing&source=bl&ots=Z5uTBx4vY4&sig

=8IKXzj59QaHxTWRJeylMIw4kjw&hl=en&ei=NtddTYP4NIjEvgO21LWvDQ&sa=X&oi=book_result

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=onepage&q&f=false

Autobiographers and their craft: http://books.google.com.au/books?id=QW-9-diNpBYC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Life+writing&source=bl&ots=rlFCC7EZKO

&sig=H1DowMzokztbjwO0prHWPmgiTE&hl=en&ei=bdhdTeWqFZCmuAPPzNj4DA&sa

=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CCoQ6AEwAjgU#v=onepage&q&f=false

Some suggestions for related material:

Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom

Dawn French, Dear Fatty

Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

Jack Kerouac, On The Road

D H Lawrence, Sons and Daughters

Ralph Ellison, The Invisible Man

Isabel Allende, The House of Spirits

Isabel Allende, Paula

Jeanette Winterson, Oranges are Not the Only Fruit

Janet Frame, An Angel At My Table

Betty Churcher, Notebooks

James Frey, A Million Little Pieces

Helen Darville, The Hand That Signed The Paper

Norma Khouri, Forbidden Love

F Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and the Damned

• Crime Writing

http://www.hsc.csu.edu.au/english/extension1/genre/elect2/3685/crime_writing.htm  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_fiction

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_crime_fiction

Henning Mankell on crime fiction: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/jaipur/Macbeth-is-the-best-crime-story-Mankell/articleshow/7349840.cms

A reading list: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/3671363/50-crime-writers-to-read-before-you-die.html

An essay: http://www.mysterynet.com/books/testimony/management/

Cliches in crime writing: http://searchwarp.com/swa268184.htm http://hubpages.com/hub/The-Killer-Guide-To-Writing-Crime-Fiction

http://fictionwriting.about.com/od/genrefiction/tp/mysteryrules.htm  

Interview with Val McDiarmid: http://www.abc.net.au/local/sites/conversations/

Interview with Peter Temple: http://www.abc.net.au/rn/bookshow/stories/2010/2934610.htm

Crafting murder: an interview: http://www.abc.net.au/rn/bookshow/stories/2008/2313086.htm

Suggested related material:

Raymond Chandler, The Lady in the Lake  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Chandler

Dashiell Hammett, The Maltese Falcon, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dashiell_Hammett

Dorothy Porter, The Monkey's Mask  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Porter

William Shakespeare, Othello

Peter Corris, The Greenwich Apartments http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Corris

John Mortimer, Rumpole of the Bailey  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumpole_of_the_Bailey

John Le Carre, The Constant Gardener  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_le_Carr%C3%A9

Peter Temple, Truth  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Temple

Michael Rowbotham, Shatter, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Robotham

Kerry Greenwood, Heavenly Pleasures: A Corunna Chapman novel http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerry_Greenwood

Val McDiarmid, Fever of the Bone,  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fever_of_the_bone

Carl Hiaasen, Double Whammy  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Whammy_%28novel%29

Patricia Highsmith, The Talented Mr Ripley http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Highsmith

David Guterson, Snow Falling on Cedars  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Guterson

Henning Mankell, Sidetracked  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mankell

Steig Larsson, The Millenium Trilogy  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stieg_Larsson

A top 100 list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Top_100_Crime_Novels_of_All_Time

• Science Fiction

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_fiction http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_science_fiction_genres

 http://www.conknet.com/~fullerlibrary/ReadersAdvisory/SCIENCE%20FICTION%20READER/Introduction.htm

 http://www.treitel.org/Richard/sf/sf.html

Suggestions for related material:

George Orwell, 1984

Jonathon Swift, Gulliver's Travels

Philip K Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_K._Dick

BBC series, Dr Who

Robert A Heinlein, Starship Troopers   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starship_Troopers

  Arthur C Clarke, 2001: a Space Odyssey

Isaac Asimov, The Foundation series

A top 100 science fiction novels list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_Fiction:_The_100_Best_Novels 

Ray Bradbury, The Illustrated Man

Ursula Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness

William Moulton Marston and Elizabeth Holloway Marston, Wonder Woman

Doris Lessing, The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four and Five

Virginia Woolf, Orlando

Module B: Texts and Ways of Thinking

• After the Bomb (includes suggestions for related material)
• Romanticism
• Navigating the Global

Module C: Language and Values

• Textual Dynamics
• Language and Gender