Access to English Literature 2015

5: The Victorian Age

  Immigrant family on Ellis Island looking longingly at the New York City skyline. Immigrant family on Ellis Island looking longingly at the New York City skyline.

Competence aims in focus:

The aims of the studies are to enable students to:

  • interpret a representative selection of texts from literary-historical periods in English literature, from the Renaissance up to the present time
  • interpret literary texts and other cultural expressions from a cultural-historical and social perspective
  • analyse and assess … a selection of other artistic forms of expression within English-language culture
  • assess his or her own language learning in terms of established language learning goals

(Translation: udir.no)

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video Films from the British Library.

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Listen to Oliver Twist

radio This full-cast adaptation tells the classic story of a young boy's adventures and mishaps in Victorian London.

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Radio: Great Lives - Oscar Wilde

radio on air Oscar Wilde, author of The Importance of Being Earnest and The Ballad of Reading Gaol, is proposed by Will Self (see chapter 7 for his short story "iAnna").

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