<aside> 🚨 This module requires students to engage with and develop an informed personal understanding of their prescribed text. Through critical analysis and evaluation of its language, content and construction, students will develop an appreciation of the textual integrity of their prescribed text. They refine their own understanding and interpretations of the prescribed text and critically consider these in the light of the perspectives of others. Students explore how context influences their own and others’ responses to the text and how the text has been received and valued.

</aside>

T.S. Eliot, as the winner of the Nobel Prize in literature was a catalyst for modern literature. Contributing to hundreds of critical reviews and poetic works. In this module, students will engage with some of his seminal work — understanding what about his work has alllowed it to remain relevant and powerful across time.

Questions to explore:

• How the text is constructed
• What ideas the text contains
• Whether the text has a unity of form and ideas (textual integrity)
• How these ideas reflect the values of its context
• How these ideas reflect our contemporary values
• How the text has been received over time.

Textual Integrity:

<aside> ⭐ A key aspect of the module B course is analysing textual integrity - which is simply an evaluation of the texts unity and cohesiveness makes it a masterpiece.

</aside>

Characteristics of Textual Integrity Include:

• Organic Unity: A text can demonstrate textual integrity if the themes and techniques of the text come together to form a unified whole. You will be familiar with the sense that the parts of a text you love, like a film or an album, ‘all fit together.’ One way to approach HSC English Advanced Module B is as if you’re being asked to assess the extent to which your prescribed text has this quality.
• Universal Themes: A text can be said to have integrity if it contains ideas or themes that are relevant to humans from across time and different communities. For example, themes such as life, death, love, uncertainty, time, and the meaning of life are themes that are relevant to all people.
• Critical Engagement: A text can demonstrate textual integrity by generating critical discussion. If people debate the meaning or ideas in a text, this suggests that it has an ongoing significance for audiences.