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-'Have a heart that never hardens, and
a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.'
-Charles Dickens, novelist (1812-1870)

AGREG INTERNE 2001

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Charles Dickens :
Great Expectations (1861)
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In the mail : > J'ai déjà téléchargé toutes les oeuvres sur traitement de texte, et je commence à faire des fiches thématiques à l'aide de ce truc bien pratique (rechercher). On s'aperçoit par exemple que le thème de la robe (Miss Havisham's wedding dress) dans les Grandes Espérances a toute son importance : le mot apparaît dans plus d'une centaine de situations). - un candidat, Juin 2000. Great Expectations 1 Forum - transcript de la Conférence virtuelle du 29 Oct. 2000 sur tappedin.org Qu'attend-on de nous en dissertation / commentaire de texte au concours? Voir l'article "Privilégier la...". Agrescope > Le film Great Expectations, version David Lean (1946, noir et blanc), est repassé 6 fois en v.o. sur la chaîne cryptée Cinéclassics pendant la première semaine de janvier. Intrigue simplifiée, Estella très différente de ce qu'elle est dans le roman, Pip adulte semble avoir 35 ans, mais le début est à la fois fidèle et beau. Great Expectations, avec Gwyneth Paltrow, Ethan Hawke, Anne Bancroft et Robert de Niro (dans le rôle de Magwitch), adaptation transposée et modernisée, passe sur les chaînes cryptées Cinécinema 1, 2 et 3, à partir du 12 janvier (plusieurs fois en v.o.). Une autre chaîne cryptée, BBC Prime, propose une autre version récente de Great Expectations, celle de la BBC avec Charlotte Rampling en Miss Havisham!, en 2 parties (première partie dimanche 4 février à 21 h 30; deuxième partie à vérifier). NEW Madame Annie Ramel d'Univ Lyon 2 a mis en ligne son corrigé de dissertation "don et pardon / giving and forgiving in Great Expectations" (à télécharger à partir de son site, ou la contacter). Works on Great Expectations by Fazier Russell

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THE VICTORIAN CONTEXT Nineteenth Century - a general overview of the social, political, cultural, economic issues and influences. Domestic Life in 19th Century England. Victorian Resources for research compiled by Indiana University. Literature of the Victorian Period by Dr. Roger Blackwell Bailey, Alabama Community College. Victorian Literature Database, University of Alberta. Victorian Literature Website - Biographies of writers, timeline, quotations, poetry, critical essays...

Brown University Resource: literary studies of Dickens' works - characterization, imagery, genre, theme, interpretations of his ideas in terms of religion, science, society, economy, and literary relations. History of Victorian England, biography and chronology of his works, bibliography. Victorian Links by George P. Landow, Professor of English and art history at Brown University. Charles Dickens in the Victorian context. Victorian Web, a database of Victorian literature, politics, economics, religion, the arts and philosophy. Links, pictures,texts. Victorianism & Repression - a myth?. Dispelling the myth about Victorianism and repression. Industrial Revolution - inventors.

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CHARLES JOHN HUFFAM DICKENS EL HOMBRE Y SU VIDA (1812-1870). "Charles Dickens wasn't perfect. He was stubborn and sometimes quick-tempered. He often blamed others for the problems that he himself caused. The force of will that enabled him to succeed prevented him from taking an honest look at his own life. While he was unable to learn from the lessons of his own life perhaps we, his readers, can be more fortunate. A study of his life reveals that perfection is not a qualification for success and that no one really defines us but ourselves". Marsha Perry, Charles Dickens Gad's Hill Place. Autobiographical elements in G'Exp's (ch. 8). Charles Dickens led a very turbulent life. His life would serve as an avenue for very creative writing with themes of alienation and betrayal... Encyclopædia Britannica, l'article Dickens. Webring sur Dickens.

Timeline of Dickens' Life (David Perdue's Page). Maria Beadnell his first love His marriage to Catherine.... Dickens House Museum : worth a virtual visit. Gad's Hill Plac, the author's home, the childhood events and dreams that shaped Dickens's life, the values that influenced his writing, Dickens's friends, his work, quotes to introduce his style and vocabulary. Daily Dose of Dickens - a quote a day. Discovering Dickens cyberguide for students - what everyday life was like in the mid-1800s, links to capture the interest of middle and high school students... and their teachers. THE Dickens Page - the Japanese approach, an elaborate set of links to all things Dickens, the Dickens Society, mailing and discussion lists, bio and bibliographies, sites containing most of the author's works, from Nagoya, wow !

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GREAT EXPECTATIONS : EL TEXTO "I was always treated as if I had insisted on being born, in opposition to the dictates of reason, religion, and morality, and against the dissuading arguments of my best friends." IN FRENCH Dickens, Les Grandes Espérances, Préface de Sylvère Monod, coll. folioclassic, Gallimard, n° 3190. EN ANGLAIS Texte 1105 Ko, imprimable, vous aurez un doc. Word d'environ 155 pages. Integral sur Bibliomania. The whole book online. The book to print out or to read on-line. The entire work by the Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library. AUDIO SETS Read by Martin Jarvis, unabridged, 17. 5 hours, 12 Cassettes. "Thought by many to be Dicken's finest novel, this is the story of the orphan Pip,who is living with his sister and her husband, the village blacksmith, but has upwardly mobile ambitions. A mysterious bequest enables him to leave behind his old life and, as he betters himself, meet a dazzling cast of characters, from Miss Havisham and Estella to the convict Magwitch." RealAudio preview. -

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GREAT'EXP ~ RESEARCH & RESOURCES Great Expectations dans l'optique Agreg interne et CAPES 01 par Madame Annie Ramel, Maître de conférences à Lumière Univ Lyon 2. Madame Ramel a aussi consacré un ouvrage à Great Exp. chez Messène : Le Père ou le Pire (90 F). Raccourci de la présentation : "La critique met l'accent sur la surabondance de détails descriptifs inutiles et redondants, la multitude d'objets qui encombre la diégèse dans GEx. Mais derrière le plein se cache le vide, et c'est le vide le plus important... Il est au centre, à partir de lui s'organise la fiction, façonnée par le romancier de la même façon qu'un potier donne forme au vide. Le premier chapitre de Great Expectations fait s'ouvrir la tombe des parents de Pip : de cette béance surgit une figure paternelle terrifiante, un homme dont il faut satisfaire les exigences... - interesting ! Ouvrage pour CAPES et Agreg par Collectif, J.-P. Naugrette, et S. Monod. Bibliographie établie par Sire Michael Hollington - complète, s'adresse sans doute plus aux préparateurs qu'aux candidats. colleague discovery: > Figures libres, Figures imposées. L'explication de textes en anglais, fiction, Hachette Supérieur (HU), couverture bleue. 10 univ'spécialistes proposent 5 explications différentes de la 1è page de Great Expectations. En tout une trentaine de pages sur le début du roman dickensien, 5 points de vue différents pour éclairer l'ensemble de l'oeuvre... No time left ? Apache's web choice: Charlotte's Web constructed by students in English 434 (The Nineteenth-Century English Novel) during Winter Term 1999 using Storyspace hypertext authoring software. A foule of interlinked student research projects on a variety of topics, all of them connected to Charles Dickens's Great Expectations and grouped together... And this other GReat EXp. Mega-site. Great'Exp - the story of Pip, or a Bildungsroman?. The Bildungsroman and Pip's "Expectations" by Rachel Birk. Charles Dickens' Victorian Education: The Best That Money Couldn't Buy by Kathy Gray : In 1812, when John and Elizabeth Dickens admired their newborn, Charles, they had no idea how his educational pursuits would lead him to immortality in the literary world. John Dickens hoped his son would grow up to be a "learned and distinguished gentleman" (Ackroyd 78). He passed this aspiration on to his son who kept it true to his heart... Dickens' Childhood by Joy Feighner :"I do not write resentfully or angrily: for I know all these things have worked together to make me what I am" - Charles Dickens. Charles Dickens' Image of Women as Related to the Female Characters in Great Expectations by Janice Bashi : Much can be said about Dickens' view of women according to the way he constructs his many female characters in Great Expectations. However, none of them are deeply focused on throughout the novel. Estella, who is one of Pip's "great expectations," does not even have a major role... Pip's Aspirations Toward Gentility in Charles Dickens' Great Expectations by Tracee Patterson-Falconer : Through Great Expectations, Dickens explores the notions of gentility in the 19th century and the implications of upward mobility on the lower class. One of the most radical aspects of the industrial revolution on the everyday life of nineteenth-century England was the effect on the social structure. Prior to the nineteenth century, social stratification was rigid and did not allow individuals to move from one group to another...

A Free Education For All: Dickens¹ Great Expectations for Education in Victorian England, by Kathy Gray : In 1864, in a speech to the Establishment of the Shakespeare Foundation Schools, Charles Dickens emphasized his public schooling philosophy in these words: "no where in this country is there so complete an absence of servility to mere rank, to mere position, to mere riches as in a public school. A boy there is always what his abilities or his personal qualities make him" (Speeches 336). This was Dickens¹ great expectation for the education of England¹s children... Women and Property in Great Expectations par Hiam Brinjikji. Charles Dickens' Image of Womeas Related to the Female Characters in Great Expectations by Janice Bashi. Violent Women by Laletia Rajah Wilson: One may infer that Dickens may have been attempting to acknowledge the birth of female freedom, due to the industrial revolution, by way of the female characters' actions within Great Expectations. Considering that he creates such verbal execution performed by many of the female characters within the novel suggests that women were usually treated as equals, this not being the case. By allowing these women to be verbally and physically abusive, Dickens may have been presenting the distorted idea toward female criminals and violent women... Rights of Women in Nineteenth-Century England by Hiam Brinjikji. Laurent Lepaludier, "Charles Dickens, Great Expectations", Editions Messène - recueil d'articles court, 130 pages, mais (s'en doute,... trop dense). Tony Marchant's adaptation of the story for television - two long episodes, see synopsis. BBC Presentation of G'Exp - mid 19th century England, a close look at the plot, the strange figure of Miss Havisham, the places in which Dickens set the scenes, Social Class, Crime and Punishment in the 19th Century, Dickens's Victorian values... What's up with Miss Havisham, this fascinating, morbid character? Dickens Quotes - by topic! The Main Characters, also the minor ones. Education Topics in Great'Exp. Children in Great'Exp: child labour, 'rearing by hand'... Class structure in Great Exp's ch. 17.. Criticism, Reviews and Essays On Dickens´s Novels - with 9 solid links on Great Expectations Community, Stereotype, and Insanity in Eliot's Adam Bede and Dickens' Great Expectations. The Industrial Revolution is often mentioned in Great Expectations. It was a period of great change that not only effected the economy and technology, but peoples' lives and occupations. The character, Herbert Pocket, describes himself as a "capitalist- an insurer of ships." This is certainly a job that became more popular with the further development of the Industrial Revolution... Review reprinted from September 1861 as it appeared in The Atlantic Monthly:In Great Expectations, Dickens seems to have attained the mastery of powers which formerly more or less mastered him. He has fairly discovered that he cannot, like Thackeray, narrate a story as if he were a mere looker-on, a mere knowing observer of what he describes and represents; and he has therefore taken observation simply as the basis of his plot and his characterization... In Great Expectations, Charles Dickens explores the popular attitudes of his contemporary readership towards social welfare and the treatment of the poor. He does this by setting the book in a time before certain social reforms, reforms Dickens thought inhuman, had been implemented. Great Expectations was published serially in 1860 and 1861. The time period the story encompasses was from 1812 to 1829. It is important to note that the period between these fictional events and the book's publishing was one of social upheaval in Victorian England. Most notably, in 1834, legislation known as "The New Poor Laws" went into effect. Suite: God Bless The Child That's Got His Own, by Elaine O'Toole.

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Teacher Cyberguide for Great Expectations by Schools of California Online Resources for Education (SCORE). Creating a Context for Great Expectations - extrait de l'intro: "Rather than merely confirming and interpreting what we already know, Great Expectations helps us to the supposition that there may be something else at work of which we may have been unaware. Thus we are led, for example, to consider questions of money and social position, gender and power, caste and class to account for our own experience; we may even wish to think of how barriers raised by the English class-system in this novel paralle obstructions of race in the United States. Reading Great Expectations is therefore an exercise not in resolving problems but in generating ways of thinking about certain aspects of life and literature. As it catches and stimulates our curiosity, Great Expectations thus teases us into thought about our common human condition." - Professor Murray Baumgarten, University of California at Santa Cruz. High School essays on GEx.

Between Realism and Idealism: the Construction of Reality in Great Expectations byS. Nonomura : Dickens seems to have escaped from the limitations of Victorian realism and explored new possibilities of reality... Dickens : Psychoanalysis A short Lacanian/ Freudian analysis of Orlick and the textual endings of Great Expectationswith links, works cited, reference works and endnotes. Interesting. Great Expectations CyberGuideby Mickey Goularte, a 9th-grade English teacher at Porterville (California) "with the intent of using it for my accelerated classes, I felt that Pip's search for identity was one students could identify with."- the novel in relation to the issues of its time. Guided Imagery exercise - places students in Pip's shoes at the beginning of the novel, when he first meets Magwitch. Readers need to understand Pip's inner struggles and the forces that influenced him... Phew! Pip's servant, BTW, was called 'The Avenger'...

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The Boost : «I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.» -T.S. Eliot. The Booze : «One night in 1879 at a bar in a town called Menlo Park, NJ, some men were drinking beer, when suddenly one of them announced that he was going to invent an electric light. The others laughed, but that man got up, put on his coat and hat, and accidentally walked into the fireplace, thereby setting his coat on fire. This gave Thomas Edison, who was at another table, drinking coffee, the idea of using carbonized cotton as the filament in his light bulb. So we see that beer, if used correctly, can be a tremendous force for good.» -Dave Barry. Now, warm the pot for tea, or better, arrange a Dickens's time High Tea. And, as union makes strength, partagez vos suggestions, trouvailles, et humeurs ! e-mail ACCUEIL -- OBJECTIFS-- DE LA PAGE PROGRAMMES AGREG 2001 PREPARER L'AGREG RAPPORTS---- DE JURY - DIDACTIQUE, ECRIT & ORAL: EPREUVES CONSEILS BIBLIOGRAPHIE ABORDER--- LES EPREUVES WIRED---- DIDACTIQUE BRANCHEE -- FACE AU - JURY DISSERTATION LINGUISTIQUE ART DE LA TRADUCTION -Antony & Cleopatra AGREG 2001 TOPICS -Joyce's Dubliners Manifest Destiny Great Expectations Poverty in -Britain NEWS DAILY --CARTOON YOUR COMMENTS ANGLAIS AU PRIMAIRE--- COLLEGE ------ & LYCEE TEACHING KIDS WEB USE------ PLANS DE COURS--------- INTER- DISCIPLINARITE MUSIC ------- & SONG BACKGROUND MUSIC IN CLASS SHAKESPEARE-- EN MUSIQUE SHAKESPEARE AU LYCEE? GRAMMAR & SPELLING GRAMMAIRE DE L'ENONCIATION ---PHONOLOGIE & PHONETIQUE VOYAGES LINGUISTIQUES ECHANGES SCOLAIRES ELECTRONIQUES ASSISTANTS & LOCUTEURS -LES NATIFS GIVING STUDENTS CONTROL LISTENING ACTIVITIES -TEACHERS AND TECHNOLOGIES LA PRESSE ---EN CLASSE D'ANGLAIS HEURISTIQUE & CONSTRUCTIVISTE ERE NUMERIQUE LANGUES ET TECHNOLOGIE TEACHING READING LIRE DU TEXTE AUTHENTIQUE ENGLISH CRAZY- LANGUAGE! INTELLIGENCE & APPRENTISSAGE THEORIE & PRATIQUE SYSTEME ET EVOLUTION LE MULTIMEDIA LE RETRO- PROJECTEUR LA VIDEO ESPACES LANGUES CROSS-CURRICULAR, LES TPE They know enough who know how to learn. -Henry Adams (1838-1918). A.Word.A.Day PARENTS, TEACHERS, DISCIPLINE DISCIPLINE CAHIER MAGIQUE LE CINEMA ANGLAIS TECHNIQUE ET DES AFFAIRES USEFUL -- LINKS THE MARGINAL AND THE NEEDY SPECIAL -THANKS

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