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An analysis of Consciousness: the Writer’s
Primary pen:
Fulfilling an intellectual lacuna in contemporary literary
criticism
The above quotation with which the celebrated
literary critic Graham Hough begins his Styles and Stylistics is
holistically applicable to Dilshan Boange’s book ‘Consciousness; the
Writer’s Primary Pen’ which was published by Godage International
Publishers.
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The relevance and irrelevance of Harold Bloom - Part 1
Harold Bloom is one of the most important and
influential literary critics and literary theorists in the world. He
was for many years a professor of English at Yale University. Over
the past four decades or so, he has published a number of seminal
works of literary analysis and edited over hundreds of volumes of
essays. As with most influential literary critics and theorists, he
is highly controversial. There are some who value him as a
profoundly important and consequential literary scholar; there are
others, equally vehemently, who feel that he is too idiosyncratic
and deploys a kind of arcane vocabulary that appears to exude a
certain pretentiousness. Bloom was a close reader of texts; he
believed that the best apology for literary criticism is to do it,
that is, to read texts carefully and write about them with insight.
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Galle Literary Festival 2011 :
A vanity fair?
The scenario developing in and around the world
heritage site Galle Fort and in the city of Galle associated with
Galle Literary Festival reminded me the novel Vanity Fair by William
Makepeace Thackeray. The novel was first published in 1847-48.
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