The Resilience of Buchi Emecheta
Sometimes writers have their moment in the sun, and then attention slips elsewhere and they become neglected. One such writer […]
Read more →Literature Studies
Exploring Literature for A Level Study
Category: prose
Lonely Londoners has a Woman Problem
A dramatisation of Sam Selvon’s novel The Lonely Londoners has opened, to warm reviews, at London’s Jermyn Street Theatre. As […]
Read more →Thomas Hardy and Women
Ever since studying Tess of the d’Urbervilles at A Level, I’ve always been a bit of a fan of Thomas […]
Read more →Streams of Consciousness
I have been re-reading Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway recently, enjoying the subtle but lively way in which the stream of […]
Read more →Kureishi’s New Year
It’s the end of the year with the new one just around the corner. We may face that with different […]
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 →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 →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 […]
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