Saturday, April 25, 2015

EN 2204 Sri Lankan Literature


Poetry

Kamala Wijerathne - Soldier’s Wife Weep / Monument / Musical

DayaDisanayake - Kite / Interview

Richard de Soyza - Lepidoptera/Gajagawannema.

Patrick Fernando - Fisherman mourned by his wife

Anne Ranasinghe - Sati

LakdasaWickramasinghe -Folk Poet Ysinno

YasmineGunarathne - This Language This Woman

Jean Arsanayagam - Mother-in-law



Short Story

Golden Oriole by SuwimaleeKarunaratne

Misunderstanding by J.S Tissanayagam



Drama


Rasanayagam’s Last Riot by Ernest Macintyre

Intruder by ThayagarajaArasanayagam


EN 2105 - Common Wealth Literature - 2108


Poetry
WoleSoynka - ‘Telephone conversation’

A.K. Ramanujan - ‘River’, ‘Obituary’

N. Ezekial - ‘Back Ground Casually’

Kamala Das - ‘My Grand Mother’s House’

Dereckwalkot - ‘Far Cry from Africa’

Thargore - Unworthy Gift

J. P Clerk - Night Rain


Short story

‘Post Master’ by Tagore

Divorcee by Ken SaroWiwa


Novel
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

‘Waiting Earth’ by P. Wijenayeka

Friday, January 2, 2015

Mirage


MIRAGE

This short story is the first of the two short stories by Maureen Seneviratne. Both her stories deal with the racial conflict, or the ethnic war in our country. But what will strike you as different is the way she tells her stories or her narrative technique.

Second Year 2nd Semi

Poetry
·         Recommended text

English and American Poetry

-   John Donne: 1572-1630, Song; Sweetest Love I do not go
-   William Wordsworth: 1770-1850, Upon Westminster Bridge
-   Robert Burns, A Red, Red Rose
-   John Keats: 1795-1821, La Belle Dame Sans Mercy, A thing of Beauty
-   W. B. Yeats: 1865-1919, Wild Swans at The Coole
-   Walter De La Mare: 1873-1956, Estranged
-   Rupert Brooke: 1887-1915, The Soldier

Sri Lankan and Post-colonial Poetry

-   Jean Arasanayegam In the Month of July, Ruined Gopuram
-   Anne Raqnasinghe, Secretariat: Cecil Rajendra, Song of Hope
-   Wole Soyinka, Telephone Conversation

Short stories
·         Recommended text
-   Maurreen Seneviratne, Mirage,
-   Jhumpa Lahiri: Mrs. Sen’s
-   O’Henry, The Purple Dress  
Novel
·         Recommended text
-   George Orwell: Animal Farm
or
-   Charles Dickens: The Tale of Two Cities
Drama
·         Recommended text
-  William Shakespeare: The Merchant of Venice
 or
-  Romeo and Juliet