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?
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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