Category Archives: Literature in Englsih

The Divorcee and The Defeated

“The Divorcee” and “The Defeated”: the socially condemned “Both Ken Saro-Wiwa and Nadine Gordimer portray the plight of groups of people who have been socially condemned.” Discuss this statement with reference to short stories ‘The Divorcee” and ‘The Defeated.” Written in PEEL [Point, Explanation, Evidence, Link] format by BunPeiris Both Ken Saro-Wiwa and Nadine Gordimer portray the plight of groups […]

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A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Plot construction & Aspects of Love in A Midsummer Night’s Dream Written by BunPeiris “Are you sure That we are awake? It seems to meThat yet we sleep, we dream”  [A Midsummer Night’s Dream: William Shakespeare] Plot construction A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a comedy composed and stage directed by the foremost dramatist, the ultimate humanist writer ever. But Shakespeare would […]

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New Directions

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 Little Gems of Literature: Holiday reading for Grade 8,9,10 and 11 with bunpeiris in April, August & December at Kandana. bunpeiris@gmail.com  0777 1000 60 New Directions by Maya Angelou  In 1903 the late Mrs. Annie Johnson of Arkansas found herself with two toddling sons, very little money, a slight ability to read and add simple numbers. To this picture add a disastrous […]

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Teaching & Learning Literature

 Teaching & Learning Literature REQUIREMENTS, APPRECIATIONS AND EXPERIENCES  by bunpeiris Stories tell us how to live. Literature being all about us, the human race; being trained upon of the tragicomedy of the lonely race with intelligent aliens yet to be found for company; being homed in on the march of folly throughout their millenniums of history; being bullseyed on the human condition, to introduce this man-made treasure […]

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1001 Arabian Nights: Richard Burton’s Foreword

  1001 Arabian Nights: Richard Burton’s Foreword Following Forward to the 1001 Arabian Nights by its illustrious translator Richard F. Burton is reproduced herein by the kind cortesy of The Dunyazad Digital Library www.dunyazad-library.net This work, labourious as it may appear, has been to me a labour of love, an unfailing source of solace and satisfaction. During my long years […]

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Chinua Achebe’s Times

Chinua Achebe Things Fall Apart

Chinua Achebe’s Times Engagement and Estrangement Chinua Achebe and Friends at Umuahia: The Making of a Literary Elite, by Terri Ochiagha Willy Maley on an ‘Eton of the East’ in Nigeria that inadvertently inspired a generation of writers At a time when UK higher education managers talk of “internationalisation” and “world-changing research” while limiting participation and undermining the arts and […]

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