Critical Study of Sixty Lights

This work ebook will assist students to critically study Sixty Lights by considering how the elements of the text work together as a whole to create textual integrity. Students will consider Jones' personal context, key concepts such as photography, memory and grief, Victorian England, modernity and 'coming of age' novels and how intertextuality is represented in the novel. Other elements such as structure, characters, themes and setting are also addressed. Students will analyse the...
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This work ebook will assist students to critically study Sixty Lights by considering how the elements of the text work together as a whole to create textual integrity. Students will consider Jones' personal context, key concepts such as photography, memory and grief, Victorian England, modernity and 'coming of age' novels and how intertextuality is represented in the novel. Other elements such as structure, characters, themes and setting are also addressed. Students will analyse the ideas and concepts conveyed in Jones' theoretical influences, such as Lynda Nead's Victorian Babylon, Eduardo Cadava's Words of Light, Susan Sontag's On Photography and Regarding the Pain of Others and Roland Barthe's Camera Lucida. They will explore how these texts relate to Sixty Lights. Students will also be guided through the process of writing a critical study essay.