LibGuides: Notre Dame: Literature

VCAA

VCE Literature Study Design
Accreditation Period
Units 1 and 4 - 2023-2027

VCC Exams and Reports

Literature exams and rteports
The LRC has copies of previous exams if you would like a to photocopy

Year 11 Literature Texts

The Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield. by Katherine Mansfield
Katherine Mansfield's clear, sparkling short stories revolutionised the genre, and this collection represents the whole range of her brilliant writing. Moving, resonant, full of light and colour, they span short studies to longer tales.
Stories, Mansfield, K. and Smith, A., 2020.
The Collected Stories. [online] Goodreads.com. Available at: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/
598720.The_Collected_Stories [Accessed 18 August 2020].
A Doll's House and Other Plays by Henrik Ibsen; Peter Watts (Introduction by, Translator)
The three plays in this volume, all deal with themes of alienation from society and the breaking down of convention. A Doll's House (1879) portrays a woman questioning her duty to her husband and seeking to escape the stifling confines of her marriage. In The League of Youth (1869), Ibsen created a comedy about a hypocritical politician, and in The Lady from the Sea (1888), a woman longs to return to the life she enjoyed before she was married.
2020. [online] Available at: https://www.booktopia.com.au/a-doll-s-house-and-other-plays-henrik-ibsen/book/9780140441468.html [Accessed 18 August 2020].
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Jay Gatsby is the man who has everything. But one thing will always be out of his reach... Beneath the shimmering surface of his life, he is hiding a secret: a silent longing that can never be fulfilled. And soon this destructive obsession will force his world to unravel.
2020. [online] Available at: https://www.booktopia.com.au/
the-great-gatsby-f-scott-fitzgerald/book/9780141182636.
html [Accessed 18 August 2020].
After Story by Larissa Behrendt
Call Number: F BEH
When Indigenous lawyer Jasmine decides to take her mother Della on a tour of England's most revered literary sites, Jasmine hopes it will bring them closer together and help them reconcile the past. Twenty-five years earlier the disappearance of Jasmine's older sister devastated their tight-knit community. This tragedy returns to haunt Jasmine and Della when another child mysteriously goes missing on Hampstead Heath. As Jasmine immerses herself in the world of her literary idols - including Jane Austen, the Brontë sisters and Virginia Woolf - Della is inspired to rediscover the wisdom of her own culture and storytelling. But sometimes the stories that are not told can become too great to bear.

Online Resources

VCE Literature Study Design

Unit 1

Area of Study 1: Reading practices

Area of study 2: Exploration of literacy movements and genres

Unit 2

Area of Study 1: Voices of Country

Area of Study 2: The text in its context

Unit 3

Area of Study 1: Adaptations and transformations

Area of Study 2: Developing interpretations

Unit 4

Area of Study 1: Creative responses to text

Area of Study 2: Close analysis of texts

ClickView

Othello: New Perspectives

Language in Othello

Folger Theatre's performance of Othello: an exploration of the power of words and language in Othello.

FolgerLibrary, 2020. Insider's Guide: Language In Othello. [video] Available at: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=68&v=trhHBQRJUcQ&feature=emb_title> [Accessed 18 August 2020].

Writing a Literary Analysis

Methodology: An Introduction to Literary Theory

National Library of Australia

Researching literature from home
At the moment the only information that we can access is online.This page shows you how to make the most of the resources available online to further your work.

Clickview: Cat On A Hot Tin Room (Movie)

1958 movie, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Starring Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Newman, Burl Ives.

A dying plantation owner is visited by his two sons and their family on his 65th birthday. Though forced to water down all references to homosexuality, this adaptation of Tennessee William's melodrama still simmers with pent-up emotions. Based on the play by Tennessee Williams.

Year 12 Literature Texts

Emily Dickinson : the complete poems by Emily Dickinson
In this edition, the editor, Thomas H. Johnson, has presented the poems in their original contexts; and where alternate readings were suggested, he has chosen only those which the poet evidently preferred. His introduction includes a brief explanation of his selection of texts as well as an outline of Emily Dickinson's career. (Distributor)
Othello (3e)(Cambridge School Shakespeare) by Jane Coles (Editor); Rex Gibson (Founded by); Vicki Wienand (General Editor); Richard Andrews (General Editor); William Shakespeare
The story revolves around its two central characters: Othello, a Moorish general in the Venetian army, and his treacherous ensign, Iago.
En.wikipedia.org. 2020. Othello. [online] Available at: [Accessed 18 August 2020].
Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay
In 1900, a class of young women from an exclusive private school go on an excursion to the isolated Hanging Rock, deep in the Australian bush. The excursion ends in tragedy when three girls and a teacher mysteriously vanish after climbing the rock. Only one girl returns, with no memory of what has become of the others.
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
Call Number: F BAL
Two letters, written on the occasion of the centennial of the Emancipation Proclamation, that exhort Americans, both black and white, to attack the terrible legacy of racism.

Wheelers Audiobooks and E-books

Othello by William Shakespeare; Hugh Quarshie (Narrated by); Anton Lesser (Narrated by); Emma Fielding (Narrated by); Full Cast (Narrated by)
Call Number: Audiobook - on Wheelers
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald; William Hope (Narrated by)
Call Number: Audiobook - on Wheelers
A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen
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Call Number: Audiobook - on Wheelers

Othello by Shakespeare

SparkNotes: Othello
Othello: The Moor of Venice
Synopsis and plot overview of Othello.
Royal Shakespeare Company: Othello, Scene-by-scene
Scene-by-scene detailed look at Othello.
Folger Shakespeare Library: Othello
Exploration of characters, language, textual notes, modern perspectives, and further reading.
Cliffs Notes: Othello

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Literature video library on ClickView
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