Insight Text guide - The Golden Age
Insight Text guide - The Golden Age
Insight Text Guides take students into the deeper layers of meaning in a range of popular novels, plays, films, short-story collections and nonfiction texts. They are designed to develop detailed knowledge, in-depth understanding and genuine insight into each text.
The guides are written by practising English teachers, professional writers, reviewers and academics who are experts in their fields. Each guide presents a clear, comprehensive and accessible analysis.
There are over 150 titles in the Insight Text Guides series and new titles are published every year.
DESCRIPTION
DESCRIPTION
Insight Text Guides – The Golden Age is designed to help secondary English students understand and analyse the text. This comprehensive guide to the novel by Joan London contains historical and social background information, detailed chapter analyses and discussions of structure, style, narrative point of view, characters and themes. Essay questions and sample answers help students to create analytical responses to the text.
BOOK DETAILS
BOOK DETAILS
Each guide includes the following:
- Character map
- Notes on the author's life and work
- Brief synopsis and character summaries
- Context and background information
- Explanations of the text's genre, structure and language features
- In-depth analysis of all chapters, scenes or stories
- Detailed discussions of characters and themes
- Different interpretations of the text
- Guidelines on essay writing
- Essay questions, analysis of a sample question and a complete sample essay.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
ISBN 9781925316865
About the writer:
Virginia Lee, BA (Hons), Dip Ed, has been teaching senior English for over thirty years and has co-authored a number of English and VCE textbooks. She is the author of Insight Text Guides on The Great Gatsby, Lantana and Year of Wonders.
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