Resource list: HSC English Extension (prescribed texts)
This page lists resources about the prescribed texts and themes studied in the Standard course. They are arranged by module and elective.
For a complete list of texts, see the NSW Board of Studies prescribed texts 2009-2014 [PDF 78.27KB].
Module A Genre: Life writing, Crime, Science Fiction |Module B: Texts and ways of thinking | Module C: Language and values
Module A: Genre - Life writing
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Encyclopedia of life writing : autobiographical and biographical forms Editor, Margaretta Jolly 2001 |
State Reference Library Reference shelves |
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Hamilton, Nigel Biography : a brief history 2007 |
State Reference Library Stack storage |
Module A: Genre - Crime Writing
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Barbour, Douglas Michael Ondaatje 1993 |
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The Cambridge companion to crime fiction by Martin Priestman 2003 |
State Reference Library Stack storage |
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The Cambridge companion to Tom Stoppard edited by Katherine E. Kelly |
State Reference Library Stack storage |
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Collection of links about the art of crime and mystery writing |
Website |
Module A: Genre - Science fiction
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Firchow, Peter Edgerly The end of Utopia : a study of Aldous Huxley's Brave new world 1984 |
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The Greenwood encyclopedia of science fiction and fantasy : themes, works, and wonders edited by Gary Westfahl 2005 |
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Jameson, Fredric Archaeologies of the future : the desire called utopia and other science fictions 2005 |
State Reference Library Stack storage |
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The making of 2001, a space odyssey selected by Stephanie Schwam introduction by Jay Cocks. |
State Reference Library Stack storage |
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2001 A space odyssey Internet Archive A website devoted to essays, interviews, reviews, behind-the-scenes information and more about 2001 |
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A searchable index of links to websites about science fiction, fantasy and covering speculative fiction in television, books, authors, movies, RPG's, games and collectables |
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Somaweb Aldous Huxley web page The intellectual, satirical, spiritual, hypnotic, and philosophical world of Aldous Huxley. |
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Module B: Texts and ways of thinking
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Aronoff, Myron J The spy novels of John le Carré : balancing ethics and politics 1998 |
State Reference Library Stack storage |
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Boulter, Jonathan Beckett : a guide for the perplexed 2008 |
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The Cambridge companion to Sylvia Plath edited by Jo Gill 2006 |
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Potts, Stephen W Catch-22 : antiheroic antinovel 1989 |
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Seed, David The fiction of Joseph Heller : against the grain 1989 |
State Reference Library Stack storage |
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Barth J. Robert Romanticism and transcendence : Wordsworth, Coleridge, and the religious imagination |
State Reference Library Stack storage |
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Burwick, Frederick The Oxford handbook of Samuel Taylor Coleridge 2009 |
State Reference Library Stack storage |
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A concise companion to the Romantic age edited by Jon Klancher 2009 |
State Reference Library Stack storage |
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Essays on the fiction of A.S. Byatt : imagining the real edited by Alexa Alfer and Michael J. Noble. 2001 |
State Reference Library Stack storage |
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Tauchert, Ashley Romancing Jane Austen : narrative, realism, and the possibility of a happy ending 2005 |
State Reference Library Stack storage |
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Turley Richard Marggraf Keats's boyish imagination 2004 |
State Reference Library Stack storage |
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O'Brien Eugene Seamus Heaney : creating Irelands of the mind 2002 |
State Reference Library Stack storage |
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Rood Karen L Understanding Annie Proulx |
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Readers guide to Wuthering Heights Paul Thompson’s comprehensive guide to the novel |
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Articles, papers and documents about Beckett’s life and works |
Website |
Module C: Language and values
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Goldman Jane The Cambridge introduction to Virginia Woolf 2006 |
State Reference Library Reference shelves |
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Gay Penny The Cambridge introduction to Shakespeare's comedies 2008 |
State Reference Library Reference shelves |
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Contains articles, essays and links. Produced by the University of Toronto |
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Useful articles and interviews about the author |
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