English Literature A-Level
Public institutions and visible power
What Public institutions and visible power means in English Literature A-Level, as defined for AQA.
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Settings such as courts, assemblies, workplaces or colonial administrations that make institutional power visible and expose its workings.
Topics that use Public institutions and visible power
- Elements of political and social protest writing (AQA A-Level)
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- Historical and political drama
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