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Teachers and exam papers have some strange obsession with putting everything in an Australian context. Firstly, does anyone know what an Australian context is supposed to mean and secondly, how do we create this Australian context? The only thing we've been told is that passing references to gum...

Another way to think of paradigms is as perspectives, though it goes a little deeper than that. A person's paradigm is the way they approach the world and it covers how they think, how they perceive events, and what options they feel are available to them in responding to those events.

I don't know Handmaid's Tale, but I know the rest. LoTR was Tolkien despairing over how industrialisation was destroying the green areas and forests that he loved and can also be read as commenting on World War 1 (Tolkien specifically stated that he wasn't trying to write about WW1, but you...

Is there any problem with the implicit and unstated definitions of genres that the general public has? I admit that trying to write an essay using implicit definitions could be a little tricky, but are the implicit definitions flawed so that more finicky and problematic explicit definitions must...

I look at genre theory and the arguments between theoreticians about it, and I cannot understand why they argue over seemingly pointless details. There must be a reason, in the theoreticians' minds if nowhere else, but what is it? I am not talking about broad genres, those have clear purposes...