Susan Hill: The Essential GuideThe Woman in Black, Strange Meeting, I'm the King of the Castle, A Little Bit of Singing and DancingIn Vintage Living Texts, teachers and students will find the essential guide to the works of Susan Hill. Vintage Living Texts is unique in that it offers an in-depth interview with Susan Hill, relating specifically to the texts under discussion. This guide deals with Hill's themes, genre and narrative technique, and a close reading of the texts will provide a rich source of ideas for intelligent and inventive ways of approaching the novels. Also included in this guide are detailed reading plans for all three novels, questions for essays and discussion, contextual material, suggested texts for complementary and comparative reading, extracts from reviews, a critical overview, a biography, bibliography and a glossary of literary terms. |
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Susan Hill: The Essential Guide to Contemporary Literature Margaret Reynolds,Jonathan Noakes No preview available - 2003 |
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adult ANALYSE Arthur Kipps ASSESS atmosphere Barton Bit of Singing Castle characters child childhood Consider Contexts contrast David Barton death DISCUSSION OR ESSAYS Eel Marsh House emotional episode evil experience fear feel fiction film Focus frightening genre Graham Greene happened haunted Henry James's Hilliard I'm the King idea images imagination interview with Hill Joseph Hooper King Kipps's landscape literary Looking over Chapter menace misfit moral point mother narrative narrator natural world notes pathetic fallacy person play poem poetry point of view psychopathic QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION READ AND COMPARE read Hill's reader Reading activities Reading guides RESEARCH AND COMPARE says scene SECTIONS sense of place Singing and Dancing Strange Meeting suggest Susan Hill tell themes there's things tion told trench warfare trenches VINTAGE LIVING TEXT Wilfred Owen Woman in Black words write written