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Connell Guides Essay Prize 2015-16

Our Essay Prize is back! This year we have a new judge, the best-selling novelist Robert Harris, AND a new question:  Who is your favourite character from English literature and why? Is it, say, Virginia Woolf’s Orlando or plucky, headstrong Bathsheba from Far From the Madding Crowd? Or perhaps you prefer a contemporary character like Piscine Molitor Patel from Life of Pi or the enigmatic Jay Gatsby? Whoever it is, if you’re a sixth-form student studying English Literature (including Scottish Highers), then you now have an opportunity to make your case. The prize this year is £500, a full set of Connell Guides and your essay published! Two runners up will receive a £100 gift card to spend at Connell Guides.                                           Entries should be no more than 1,500 words and they should be submitted by 20th February 2016. Entries can be submitted from today.   Essays will be judged this year by Robert Harris, the author of Fatherland, Enigma and The Ghost. His latest thriller, An Officer and a Spy, is based on the infamous Dreyfus case in France in the late 1890s. Harris has been a strong supporter of Connell Guides from the outset, describing them as “clear, elegant and authoritative… worthy of the great masterpieces they analyse”. We are very pleased he has agreed to judge our essay competition this year.   Click here to read last year’s winning essay on Jez Butterworth's Jerusalem by Eleanor Winn. Here is Robert Harris talking about what he likes about Connell Guides:                              We look forward to reading your essays! With best wishes, The Connell Guides Team    www.connellguides.com Students: Get 15% off at our new online shop using code STUDENT15 Follow us on Twitter:  @connell_guides  |   Like us on Facebook

Allusions in The Waste Land

https://britlitwiki.wikispaces.com/Allusions+in+Eliot

TV program about Mrs Dalloway

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xELtm-1v4U – Secret Life of Books episode on Mrs Dalloway. Excellent and well worth a watch!

William Blake: a documentary

In case you're interested; apparently this is rather good.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qvx0on0Hj2I&feature=youtu.be&list=PLOin_0y20gjTOw__98PRr9AJ8QrcA-igQ

Narrative devices in Frankenstein

Easy, straightforward, and really good contextual points (whatever the question).


http://www.slideshare.net/NDimechkie/narrative-framing-devices-in-frankenstein

How to tell you're reading Gothic novels - in graphs

Great A04 revision for Frankenstein - reminds you what's unique, and not so unique, about Mary Shelley's tale.


http://www.theguardian.com/books/interactive/2014/may/09/reading-gothic-novel-pictures


Revision tip: as you read the link above, write notes on how Shelley a) conforms to and b) subverts Gothic conventions.

Short animation about Woolf

http://www.openculture.com/2015/09/an-animated-introduction-to-virginia-woolf.html