Key Quotations (AQA A-Level English Literature A): Quizzes
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What does Tom's statement 'it's all in the telling' primarily challenge?
What does Tom's statement 'it's all in the telling' primarily challenge?
Objective certainty in history
What term describes Tom's view that historical actors and historians both lack complete information?
What term describes Tom's view that historical actors and historians both lack complete information?
Epistemological aporia
In Tom's biological metaphor, what fraction of human experience is 'Here and Now'?
In Tom's biological metaphor, what fraction of human experience is 'Here and Now'?
One-tenth
According to Tom, what does the Fenland landscape primarily represent?
According to Tom, what does the Fenland landscape primarily represent?
Existential reality
Whose poetry does Tom adapt when teaching about hope and history rhyming?
Whose poetry does Tom adapt when teaching about hope and history rhyming?
Seamus Heaney
What does Henry Crick's occupation as lock-keeper metaphorically represent?
What does Henry Crick's occupation as lock-keeper metaphorically represent?
Human vigilance & moral responsibility
According to Tom, at what point does history begin?
According to Tom, at what point does history begin?
When things go wrong
What does Tom defend against Lewis's threatened curriculum changes?
What does Tom defend against Lewis's threatened curriculum changes?
Narrative's moral necessity
How does Tom describe true reality in contrast to dramatic events?
How does Tom describe true reality in contrast to dramatic events?
Uneventfulness, vacancy, flatness
Which narrative theorist's work does Tom's view that narratives emerge from disorder connect to?
Which narrative theorist's work does Tom's view that narratives emerge from disorder connect to?
Hayden White