One thing that has always niggled with me is how they cover up the death of Bob Ewell at the end. Rather like Of Mice and Men, or the musical Oklahoma!, an extrajudicial killing is seen as the way to… (View Post)

That is a bit like studying a painting via chemical analysis of the pigments and the physics of the brush strokes. It completely misses the point. Poetry, literature, film, art, music, religion etc a… (View Post)

The key question to me is "what is the point of studying English Literature?" Is it to give some grounding in our culture? Is it to teach critical analysis of texts? Is it to instill a love… (View Post)

3 in Finland, the others are in Sweden, Norway and Russia. (View Post)

It has the advantage of being short! Steinbeck wrote much better books. Is it English literature though or world literature in English? (View Post)