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  • 4 June 2024
    Simon Wolfe
    Criteria
    Hi Tim and David, my students for their IO BOWs are using either film extracts from This is England or Dr Strangelove, an advert from a campaign recruiting for the Royal Navy, a cartoon by Liza Donnelly or a b/w photograph from Carrie Mae Weems'...
  • 4 June 2024
    David McIntyre
    Requirements
    Hi Carolyn,I suppose someone speaking from a poststructuralist persuasion would say 'all texts'. They would have a point and they would, quite deliberately, refer to 'texts' rather than 'works'.Duffy's work is often overtly intertextual. Some...
  • 4 June 2024
    David McIntyre
    Requirements
    Hi Carolyn,What's your motivation for suggesting that they 'belong' to time and space? Are you hesitant, and if so why? Almost all works can 'belong' to each area of exploration, although perhaps some move obviously than others. I know...
  • 4 June 2024
    David McIntyre
    Frequently asked questions
    Hi Ryan,Song lyrics are always considered 'literary', whether or not the artist is on the PRL. I understand that studying an album as a form of self-contained work could provide excellent materials for study. In a sense, I don't see why you...