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?
The Great Sinhalese Novel, or The Digital Divine Diary of God Vishnu by bunpeiris Chapter 1 “Sri Lanka’s King Sihabahu’s son, Vijaya from Lal country has reached Lanka, together with seven hundred followers. Lord of gods, my Faith will be established in Lanka. Therefore, protect him along with his followers & also Sri Lanka diligently” My lord Sakka, the lord of the […]
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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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Figurative Language [2]: The crazy rain and hot legs by bunpeiris It was cut and & dried at Kurana, Negombo. Pretty cool, as my nieces at Moratuwa say. A half an hour ago when I left Kandana, it was wet, sticky & kinky to the extreme. A crazy rain crashed in out of nowhere , rattling on the windscreen like […]
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Mojo and Suzanne A Novel Written by bunpeiris “For never was a story of more woe than this of Suzanne and her Mojo.” An absolutely stunning angel in a swaying short skirt and a Cashmere sweater floated into the lobby just as a butterfly would. She seemed incredibly light on her feet. I couldn’t take my eyes off. Our eyes […]
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William Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet Marginal Comments by bunpeiris It all catches fire with insanely wagging tongues of a couple of slapstick cowards, minions: not at all by steel of the masters. A brawl among the bawdy & rowdy from the houses of Montague and Capulet equal in dignity, succeeds in setting ablaze an unknown ancient feud between the […]
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Becoming Krishna by bunpeiris Let noble thoughts come to us from every side. Rigveda 1-89-I [1] “There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy: Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, Shakespeare “She had always wanted words, she loved them, grew up on them. Words gave her clarity, brought reason, shape. Whereas I thought words bent emotions like sticks […]
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