The Great Gatsby Study Guide (Print)

Imaginative strategies for reading and working on the text, ideas for relating the text to its contexts and approaches to critical material.

• Strategies for getting the reading done.
• Themes; characterisation; voice; structure.
• Nick as character and storyteller.
• Close linguistic analysis: symbolism, lexical clusters.
• Contexts – historical, social and cultural, literary, including images.
• Creative writing and media approaches.
• Active approaches to criticism.

The DVD includes an interview with Nicolas Tredell, as well as colour images and a printable PDF of the study guide.

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