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 Caucasian Chalk Circle by Bertolt Brecht is apparently about and child whose ownership claimed by two mothers. But it touches social, political and emotional aspects broadly. Discuss. Written in PEEL [Point, Evidence, Explanation and Link] format by BunPeiris ______________________________________________________________________ Transformation Of Grusha And Azdak In The Backdrop of Political and Social Upheavels in Grushnia Such is the anarchy […]
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Sri Lanka, the Singhalese Buddhist Country Where is it written? It is written in water: in the lifeline of Sri Lanka, the network of thousands of rainwater reservoirs built by the ancient kings of Sri Lanka. Where is it written? It is writen in stone: in the numerous rock craved colossal buddha statues of Sri Lanka. Where is it written? […]
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The Literary Canon Vs Barbaric ignorance by bunpeiris 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 subjected to so called racial discrimination, at last, being at the […]
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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 […]
Read moreSEO [SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION] OF YOUR WEBSITE How do I check outbound web-links out of my website to some otherwebsites? While inbound links of same niche, same trade, same field as yours are of course, advantageous to your website, the unwarranted outbound links from your website to other website that’s not of your niche, its goes without saying, wouldn’t […]
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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 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 […]
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Bollywood Actresses Written by bunpeiris. The term Bollywood Movies that refer generally today to Hindi Cinema, and in a broader sense to the whole gamut of movies in Indian Cinema, could well be an inferior derivation of the term Hollywood Movies, but then the imitation rests solely on the term. The style and substance of Bollywood Movies, the song and […]
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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 […]
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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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