Module C * Representation and Text

MODULE C – REPRESENTATION AND TEXT Elective 2: People and Landscapes

In this elective, students… • explore and evaluate various representations of people and

landscapes in their prescribed text and other related texts of their own choosing • Representations = pictures / symbols / images / versions /

statements / interpretations

• People = society / community / family / nations / individuals /

groups / race / ethnic group / sub-culture /

People and

LANDSCAPES

Landscape noun 1. All the visible features of an area of land, often considered in terms of their aesthetic appeal:

… “the soft colours of the Northumbrian landscape”… … “a bleak urban landscape” …

scenery, countryside, topography, country, land, terrain, environment; outlook, view, prospect, aspect, vista, panorama, perspective, sweep Synonyms:

1.1 A picture

representing an area of countryside

1.2 [mass noun] The genre of landscape painting: “he found he could not express himself in the landscape “ 1.3 The distinctive features of a sphere of activity: “the event transformed the political landscape” 2

[as modifier] Denoting a format of printed matter which is wider than it is high: “a landscape presentation displayed the data in a clear and methodical way” Oxford English Dictionary

In this elective, students… • Explore = look closely / unpack / pull apart and see how

something works / analyse / detailed study • This is where you need to look a the text in a methodical and technical

way •  if it’s a visual text – analyse the details and techniques in the foreground – the mid-ground – and the background of the image •  it it’s a written text – analyse the context – the language features – the textual forms – and the purpose of the writing WHICH ARE THE MOST SIGNIFICANT IN CREATING THE

IMPORTANT IDEAS, VALUES, CHARACTERS AND EVENTS IN THE TEXT (visual, written or multi-media)

• Evaluate = interpret / assess / weigh up / discuss

pros and cons / consider all perspectives

Explore and evaluate…

In this elective, students… • consider the ways (the techniques) in which texts represent the

relationship between the lives of individuals or groups and real, remembered or imagined landscapes  RELATIONSHIP = connection / link / association / correlation /

way to things fit together…

Is there a • Close relationship? • Distant relationship? • Co-dependent relationship? • Complex relationship? • Obvious relationship? • Tenuous relationship? • Destructive relationship? • Productive relationship? and so on…

real, remembered or imagined landscapes

Real Actual Authentic Genuine Physical

Remembered

Imagined

Memorised Recollected Nostalgic Romanticised

Fictional Abstract Fantasy Visualised

In this elective, students… • analyse representations of people’s experience of particular

landscapes and their significance for the individual or society more broadly • Landscapes = sceneries / lands / settings / sites / environments /

geographies / terrains / ecosystem

“…people’s experience…” • Personal • Social

• Cultural • Historical • Local • National • International

In this elective, students… • develop their understanding of

how the relationship between

various textual forms, media of production and language choices influences and shapes meaning.

PURPOSE + INTENDED AUDIENCE

FORM

MEDIA

LFFs

In this elective, students… • develop their understanding of

how the relationship between

various textual forms, media of production and language choices influences and shapes meaning. • Ideas

• Values • Attitudes

PURPOSE + INTENDED AUDIENCE

FORM

MEDIA

LFFs

• Beliefs • Characters • Events

• Bodies of knowledge

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• 1798 – 1832 • reaction against the industrial revolution and The Enlightenment • Key elements? – sentimentality, power of nature, beauty in nature, the individual, the ‘danger’ of unethical science and “facts”

Victorian period

• 1830-1901 • The industrial revolution

Modernist period

• 1900-1950 • WWI & II / Social upheaval / communist Soviet Russia

Postmodernist period ContemporaryPostmodernist period

• 1950-present • The ‘pill’ / “red terror”

• •

1970-present Internet / consumerism / globalisation

Individualism