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 […]
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Exploring Literature for A Level Study
Category: politics
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 […]
Read more →Black Lives Matter
Nobody can be unaware of the events which have unfurled across the world after the killing of George Floyd in […]
Read more →Political Language
Language, the very words which we speak and the effects those words have are the material for our discussion every […]
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