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 LANDSCAPESLandscape

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” …

Synonyms: scenery, countryside, topography, country, land, terrain, environment;

outlook, view, prospect, aspect, vista, panorama, perspective, sweep

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

RealActual

Authentic

Genuine

Physical

RememberedMemorised

Recollected

Nostalgic

Romanticised

ImaginedFictional

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

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INTENDEDAUDIENCE

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.

FORM MEDIA LFFs

PURPOSE

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INTENDEDAUDIENCE

• Ideas

• Values

• Attitudes

• Beliefs

• Characters

• Events

• Bodies of knowledge

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• 1830-1901• The industrial revolution

Victorian period

• 1900-1950• WWI & II / Social upheaval

/ communist Soviet Russia

Modernist period

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

Postmodernist period

Contemporary- Postmodernist period

• 1970-present• Internet / consumerism /

globalisation

• 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”

ROMANTIC PERIODRomanticism

(Romantic reading)

Individualism