Free Speech, Banned Books
Free speech is a central tenet of democracies; everyone must be able to express their opinions, disagree and debate, even […]
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Exploring Literature for A Level Study
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Ukrainian Fiction and Non-Fiction
Apart from an allusion in Arthur’s post in March, we haven’t mentioned Ukraine. I was driving through a small Welsh […]
Read more →Russian History and Russian Literature
This week, student Arthur links contemporary events with a Russian novel first published in 1967. As the last few weeks […]
Read more →Angry Young Men at the Kitchen Sink
This week, I was struck by this article in The Guardian, about the humble beginnings of a literary publisher. Back […]
Read more →Politics and Corruption
English politics has had a couple of interesting weeks after the government tried to get one of its MPs off […]
Read more →A Noble Writer for the Nobel Prize
You may have heard that Tanzanian novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah has just been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. He is […]
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 →A New Light On Mamet’s Oleanna
Often when we are discussing literary texts, we explore different critical responses to them and we also consider the context […]
Read more →What’s the Point of Poetry?
It certainly isn’t written to be studied by A Level students, but A Level students accept they have to study […]
Read more →Black History Month
Today’s post marks Black History Month. First, a short lecture introducing the first post-colonial novel, by Chinua Achebe, which opened […]
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