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?
March 30, 2008 The Literary Canon Vs Barbaric ignorance by bunpeiris Written by B. UPUL N. PEIRIS, Sri Lanka In the beginning there was the word: the word that spreads as bush fire on this bloody day is not confined to a little known island in the east, but all around the world. A minority community, which has been unjustly […]
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Sinhalese Epigraphica Zeylanica The University of Cambridge, England has 274 volumes of ‘Epigraphica Zeylanica’ with over 3000 inscriptions from Ceylon (that is more inscriptions than the whole of mainland China has, even though Sri Lanka is only 1/2 the size of the state of New York), including one dating back to 6th century BC. Over 2000 of these have been […]
Read moreDear Dr. A. First & foremost, let me tell you Dr., you are in the minority as far as the Timothy McVeigh’s sentence is concerned. A recent Gallup-CNN poll found that the horror Mcveigh unleashed made him an exception even for some people who generally oppose the death penalty. Eighty percent said they thought McVeigh should die. Then to a […]
Read moreRambling Thoughts 1: Birds, Words, Corner Shot, Nuns, Deer Hunter, Pretty Women & Samson by bunpeiris, Moratuwa, Sri Lanka Year 2004 (c) B. U. N. Peiris Most of the European tourists tour in Sri Lanka are keen bird watchers. So I thought you too could be interested in the flying birds. Nice to here that you are & now have […]
Read moreCollective Civic Responsibility Vs. Individual Freedom in the Third WorldB. Upul N. Peiris (bunpeiris), Moratuwa, Sri Lanka To: <info-27537065@bounce.colonize.com> Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2001 1:16 PM Subject: Re: bunpeiris, Your opinion could be worth…$1,000.00! I never collected a penny for writing from Americans or for that matter, from anyone else. Never mind. A man has to do what he has […]
Read moreRITIGALA, SRI LANKA, THE LAND OF DELIGHTS Romances From The Resplendent Island 1 by B. Upul N. Peiris Unmada Chithra (The beauty who overwhelm one & all with maddening desire) The first king of Lanka, King Vijaya, who arrived in the Resplendent Island, the Land of Delights in the year of final extinction of Gauthama Buddha (543 BC), by […]
Read moreImagesElephant worshipping at the temple of God Skanda Buddhist Stupa close to Hindu temple of God Skanda, God Skanda of Katargama River Manik Ganga at Kataragama The corssed tuskers are a torment to the noble beast Festival A main road running along the rainwater reservoir Offerings of fruits to God Skanda. Rain water reservoir at Kataragama Rosen HotelRomances From The […]
Read moreASOKAMALA OF LANKA Isurumuniya Rock temple, Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka In the loveliest part of old Anuradhapura, in a group of black granite boulders, there nestles the Isurumuniya Rock temple. The temple built in the 3rd century B.C., was the first repository of the Sacred Tooth Relic of the Buddha. The […]
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Reading & Enjoying Shakespeare, the supreme center of the Western Canon Compiled by bunpeiris Of all the images of Shakespeare, I like this most: the image with a ring in the ear. Of course, Shakespeare had no pretensions. An interesting idea by some punk [eh!] painter. I love that ring, a glorious diamond in the ear like that of […]
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The very ordinary getting cloaked in Radicalism “First, we destroyed the small statue. It was a woman. Then we blew up her husband.” Taliban Leader Mullah Mohammad Omar during a press conference March 2001. The radicals blasted a treasure of their ancient heritage; the moderates defended the radicals. The Taliban were assisted by Saudi/Pakistani engineers in the destruction of the […]
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Awake at Work by Michael Carroll In ancient China around 500 BCE, thousands of burdensome social rituals dominated people’s lives. When to bow, what brocade to wear, how to address a government official, what ceremony to conduct, even what ornament to rest by the fireplace, and much, much more were all dictated by a rigid social code called li. Through […]
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WRITERS Vs. HUMANITY Being compiled by bunpeiris I am just a chronicler. My passion is to discover and to write about it. Tom Wolfe, Time 13th February 1989 Ah, what an age it is! When to speak of trees is almost crime For it is a kind of silence against injustice To Posterity: Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) “To Posterity” about Germany under the […]
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The Sinhalese of Sri Lanka, the People Of the Lion Sinhalese, the endangered nation of Sri Lanka has been under threat of being swept off the planet earth for its 2559 years glorious history: since the ancient times of recurrent invasions by the marauding Dravidian forces hell bent on plunder and pillage, slaughter and sack, ruin and rampage, murder and mayhem; […]
Read moreAwake at Work by Michael Carroll In ancient China around 500 BCE, thousands of burdensome social rituals dominated people’s lives. When to bow, what brocade to wear, how to address a government official, what ceremony to conduct, even what ornament to rest by the fireplace, and much, much more were all dictated by a rigid social code called li. Through […]
Read moreAll imaginative writing in India has had its origin in the Ramayana and the Mahabharata, ten-thousand-year old epics of India. An author picked up an incident or a character out of one of or the other and created a new wok with it, similar to Shakespeare’s transmutation of Holinshed’s Chronicle or Plutarch’s Lives. Kalidasa (1)’s Shakuntala (fifth century AD), one […]
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