Studying The Road

EMC's Study Guide and DVD on Cormac McCarthy's post-apocalyptic novel with classroom activities, resources on contexts and different readings, plus on DVD a video interview with academic and novelist Adam Roberts.

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The Road, already a popular coursework text at A Level, is one of the new texts selected for AQA B's AS unit on Aspects of Narrative, for first examination in 2012. This new addition to the EMC Advanced Literature Series offers: *Strategies to support students in reading the text independently. *Creative approaches for teaching about language, structure and form. *Discussion of key themes, including analysis of the way themes are created and understood. *Ways of putting the text in its wider generic and literary context, as an example of post-apocalyptic fiction. *Critical material, including print extracts from interviews with McCarthy. *Ideas for wider reading, if you're teaching the text for coursework. What's on the DVD? *Interview with Adam Roberts, Royal Holloway. -Science Fiction, Apocalyptic Fiction and The Road -The Road and Post-apocalyptic Literature -The Child -The Openness of the Ending -Good Guys and Bad Guys -Ambiguous Symbols -A Pared Down Style -The Handling of Time -The Impact of the Novel *The full study guide, as a printable PDF. *A PDF slideshow of colour screenshots from the opening of the film.