Warning: Contains Trigger Warnings
Sensitivities about topics, events and language in texts have created controversies for as long as texts have been published. Books […]
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Exploring Literature for A Level Study
Category: language
The Fascination of Shakespeare
There are few living Shakespearean scholars with the reputation of Stanley Wells. For nearly two decades he was Professor of […]
Read more →Puzzling Paradoxes
Paradox : a statement that is seemingly contradictory or opposed to common sense and yet is perhaps true; a self-contradictory […]
Read more →The Flip Side of Censorship
We have been concerned with matters of free speech and censorship a number of times over the last year or […]
Read more →Censorship or Sensitivity?
‘Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me.’ It’s a childhood rhyme which children were […]
Read more →Language as Weapon and Healing
I wrote over three years ago about how language is used politically and while the issue never goes away, it […]
Read more →Writing and Division
Let’s start this week by writing about writing. When a writer as renowned as Michael Morpurgo says that being able […]
Read more →Maya Angelou Still Rising
Times, they are a-changin’, sang Bob Dylan. He’s not just a singer, remember, but the winner of the Nobel Prize […]
Read more →A Lack of Joined-Up Thinking about the Arts
A Level results are due tomorrow. After these past two crazy years of education, I hope all students get the […]
Read more →Future Context and Books, Books, Books
If you are reading this, you are probably studying English A Level – congratulations! It’s one of the most interesting, […]
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