Exploring Atonement – EMC Approaches offers A Level students a wide range of critical, creative and contextual approaches to the novel, including:
- Activities to prime the reading of the novel and to introduce its literary, cultural and historical context
- Activities – both creative and critical – to support students' reading of the text, in class and independently
- Extensive activities on key aspects for after reading, including:
- Getting the Big Picture
- Narrative Voice and Perspective
- Character and Characterisation
- Themes (including a focus on childhood)
- Structure, Plot and the Handling of Time
- Genre and Intertextuality
- Literary Crime and What It Means to Read Atonement in this Context
- Style – Critical and Creative Explorations
- Exploring the Novel Through the Lens of the Film Adaptation
- A Realist Narrative, An Experimental Narrative? Both?
- Interviewed in Role as Ian McEwan
- A wide range of criticism is integrated throughout the material and includes extracts from reviews and academic articles, as well as a selection of articles originally published in emagazine.
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