Benjamin Zephaniah
It was saddening to hear of Benjamin Zephaniah’s untimely death last week. A dyslexic Rastafarian with limited formal education and […]
Read more →Literature Studies
Exploring Literature for A Level Study
Category: literature
Kae Tempest and the Guts to Love
Kae Tempest’s Brand New Ancients, which takes ordinary people and sees their lives in the light of the ancient Greek […]
Read more →Delving into Dickens
The thing is with Dickens is that most of his books are very big. The other things is that most […]
Read more →Warning: Contains Trigger Warnings
Sensitivities about topics, events and language in texts have created controversies for as long as texts have been published. Books […]
Read more →Introduction to Allegory
Here’s a poem by William Blake, from his Songs of Experience: The Sick Rose O Rose thou art sick. The […]
Read more →On the Availability of Books
It was interesting to see ideas commented on here about a year ago cropping up again this week in an […]
Read more →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 →Zadie Smith Bites Again
Zadie Smith’s first novel, White Teeth, crops up a number of times on the Post Colonial Literature pages on this […]
Read more →Behind George Orwell
George Orwell is well known, primarily for two novels which have enjoyed remarkable success. Many youngsters have enjoyed the animal […]
Read more →Booker Time – and Time for Poetry
We are inching towards Booker time again, signalled by the publication of the nominations for the prize. Some have commented […]
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