What is the difference between story and plot? What is the difference between plot summary and plot interpretation? How do you analyze the relationship between the main plot and a subplot? What are the purposes of literary elements and literary techniques? What are the writer’s literary devices and reader’s literary devices? How do you recognize and appreciate ways in which writer use language, structure and style to achieve his intended effects on the reader? How do you shift from mere appreciation of a literary text to critical literary appreciation? How do you engage in literary analysis & what is the purpose? What is the difference between topic and theme and how do you arrive at the theme? How do you compare the theme and the moral message? How do you develop an interpretation of a work of literature (drama, poetry and prose) and what is the purpose? How do you present critical appreciations or your individual responses to literary texts composed in different forms and in different periods and cultures? How do you know your individual response is valid? What are the differences between Critical Literary Appreciation, Literary Criticism, and Literary Theory? Why should there be a Literary theory at all?
William Faulkner: The Immortal Man The Nobel Prize in Literature 1949 William Faulkner’s speech at the Nobel Banquet at the City Hall in Stockholm,December 10, 1950 Ladies and gentlemen, I feel that this award was not made to me as a man, but to my work – a life’s work in the agony and sweat of the human spirit, […]
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Odyssey Odyssey: No task is a bridge too far Odyssey [1190 BC] by Homer the immortal Greek poet, one of the twin sequels to the great epic poem of Iliad [the other being Aeneid by Virgil], a magnificent diamond of heavenly radiance that dazzles forever in the cosmicscape of Western Literature, wouldn’t be constrained by a very ordinary human-invented concept called regular […]
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D. H. Lawrence by Stephen Bailey & Chris Nottingham [gleanings:literary biographies,universality-of-themes-in-fiction] Marginal Comments A couple of decades ago when the Movie ‘Lady Chatterley’s Lover‘ starring Sylvia Kristel was screened at Savoy Cinema,Wellawatte, an Englishman was baffled at the sight of exceedingly long queues of movie goers therein. He seemed to have been puzzled to witness such a fan base, such a great […]
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An Intensive English Language Tuition Class with bunpeiris A forerunner to Cambridge OL English and Literature Is your child in grade 6 or 7 or 8? Pave the way for A grade in Cambridge OL English and Literature now itself. Begin cutting the path today itself with bunpeiris. Call 0777 1000 60 today Cambridge OL English Language & Literature classes begins at Kandana […]
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Thomas Hardy by J. B. Bullen*1 [gleanings:literary biographies,universality-of-themes-in-fiction] The tragedies of Thomas Hardy‘s novels are indeed dark, but that darkness is a foil to the rightness and optimism of life. As Thomas Hardy recognised, pleasure, joy and satisfaction are emotions understood only in terms of their opposite, and much of the energy in his writing comes from the stress between […]
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Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations Marginal Comments by bunpeiris Great Expectations: the realization of a dream of a poor orphan. Oh! boy that’s a happy ending. Tell me that again, please. Okey, okey, hang on! The poor orphan boy makes its rich, makes his name, and wins the hand of the loveliest English rose. What’s more, he was even financed by an […]
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Joseph Conrad’s Heart Of Darkness Marginal Comments by bunpeiris Heart of Darkness. Kurtz is near death; as he dies aboard the river boat in the journey back downstream, to which he was taken in, along with a prodigious pile of ivory, Captain Marlow hears him faintly whisper: “The horror! The horror!” That’s all about Joseph Conrad‘s Heart of Darkness. The horror, ultimate. […]
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Caucasian Chalk Circle Grusha in Caucasian Chalk Circle is the voice of Brecht. Comment The unlikely hero and the heroine: Brecht and Grusha “Terrible is the temptation to do good!” Grusha responds to the child’s plight and yields to temptation. Grusha’s words ring a bell: “Ah, what an age it is! When to speak of trees is almost crime. For […]
Read moreSamson and Delilah 16 One day Samson went to Gaza, where he saw a prostitute. He went in to spend the night with her. 2 The people of Gaza were told, “Samson is here!” So they surrounded the place and lay in wait for him all night at the city gate.They made no move during the night, saying, “At dawn we’ll kill […]
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Why Do We Study Literature? To learn more about us: human condition. The human condition is defined as “the characteristics, key events, and situations which compose the essentials of human existence, such as birth, growth, emotionality, aspiration, conflict, and mortality.” This is a very broad topic which has been and continues to be pondered and analyzed from many perspectives, including those […]
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Literary Periods & Movements Tracing the evolution of literature through time scholars often group works from a certain timeframe together and label it as a period or movement. The movements or periods listed here where not mutually exclusive in their timeframes, they overlap, liberally. In some cases a single author can even be claimed by more than one movement. Classifing […]
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English Literature Literature Cambridge IGCSE, OL, Edexcel & National OL English Literature students endowed with a definite literary bent and a sense of the language, are bound to view their studies in literature in broader perspective, once the following article is read a couple of times. Following article for the undergraduates in English is reproduced herein by the kind courtesy […]
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TUITION IN ENGLISH LITERATURE WITH bunpeiris Cambridge, National, Edexcel – OL & AL “Literature is the question minus the answer”, French literary theorist, philosopher, linguist, critic, and semiotician Roland Barthes. [See, you are free to come up with your own answers. nihil timendum est: fear nothing] “Teachers should aim to develop readers, not literary critics” R. E. Probast in the […]
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The Demonic Hatred of Shylock by bunpeiris If you prick us, do we not bleed? [MV Act iii, Sc.i] What’s the foremost of the reason for Shylock’s hatred toward Antonio? The main reason for Shylock’s hatred toward Antonio is money. It is not the lack of money, but surplus of money. That was the root cause of Shylock’s hatred towards […]
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