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Six steps to starting your independent study project

What’s in a name?

Cratylic naming in Harry Potter and Dickens

Beatrice Groves investigates how authors use names to give us clues about their characters’ natures

Rachel Sterling as Hermione in The Winter’s Tale (The Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, London, 2016). Using the names of another text is a form of cratylic naming — Rowling’s Hermione becomes a kind of statue in A Chamber of Secrets, just as Shakespeare’s Hermione does at the end of The Winter’s Tale

AQA (B): Paper 2 Texts and genres: ‘Political writing’ (Hard Times)

Edexcel: Paper 2 Prose: comparative text for ‘Childhood’ (Hard Times)

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