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  • Schopenhauer and secular salvation in the work of J.M. Coetzee 
    Northover, Richard Alan (Institute for the Study of English in Africa Rhodes University P O Box 94 Grahamstown 6140, 2014-05)
    Considering how fruitfully Schopenhauer’s philosophy promises to provide a unified interpretation of J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace and The Lives of Animals, the critical neglect of this philosopher seems surprising. Schopenhauer ...
  • Sign langauge and hate speech: The potential pitfalls of iconic signs 
    Carney, Terrence R (African Sun Media, 2019)
    This chapter explores the ways in which some identity signifiers in sign language may be seen as examples of hate speech. The issue is considered by posing three questions: To what extent do iconic signs qualify as hate ...
  • South African drama and theatre heritage (part 1): a map of where we find ourselves 
    Keuris, Marisa; Kruger, Lida (Taylor & Francis, 2013-10-14)
    The inaccessibility of documents on South African theatre productions poses a considerable problem in both the research and teaching of theatre. The gap that this has created in our literary history may be irreversible ...
  • South African drama and theatre heritage (part II): what does the future hold? 
    Keuris, Marisa; Kruger, Lida (Taylor & Francis, 2014-01-28)
    In Part I, ‘A map of where we find ourselves’, the focus was firstly on providing a theoretical substantiation for the new technological approach towards cultural heritage (including the performance arts); secondly, to ...
  • Stranger in a strange land 
    Northover, Richard Alan; Fourie, Reinhardt (Routledge Taylor&Francis, 2017-03-01)
    On 15 April 2016, the South African Society for General Literary Studies/ Suid-Afrikaanse Vereniging vir Algemene Literatuurwetenskap (SASGLS/ SAVAL) hosted a colloquium at the University of South Africa on the ...
  • Strangers in Strange Worlds: Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam Trilogy 
    Northover, Richard Alan (Routledge Taylor&Francis, 2017-03-01)
    Strangeness, based on the ambivalence of the uncanny, characterises both the preand post-apocalyptic worlds of Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam trilogy. Whereas Spiegel (2010) makes a convincing case for the neomedievalism ...
  • Taferele, tableaux vivants, tablo's en die vroee Afrikaanse drama (1850-1950) 
    Keuris, Marisa (Litnet Akademies: 'n Joernaal vir die Geesteswetenskappe, 2012-08)
    In hierdie artikel word aan die hand van verskeie teaterhistoriese bronne nagegaan in watter mate die tafereel, tableau vivant en ander vorme van die tablo neerslag gevind het in die vroeë Afrikaanse drama (1850–1950). ...
  • "Theatre as a Memory Machine": Magrita Prinslo (1896) and Donkerland (1996) 
    Keuris, Marisa (Taylor & Francis, 2012-08-13)
    In Jill Fletcher’s well-known book on the history of South African theatre, entitled The Story of South African Theatre: 1780-1930 (1994), she gives a fascinating overview of the establishment of a theatre tradition in ...
  • Twee Fischers, twee dramas: Die Geheime Bloemfontein-konferensie (1938) en Die Bram Fischer-wals (2011) 
    Keuris, Marisa (Tydskrif vir Letterkunde Association, 2015)
    There is no better example within Afrikaner history where different generations of the same family played such extraordinary roles in the course of important historical events for the Afrikaner as well as for South Africa ...
  • Using frames to determine ordinary meaning in court cases: the case of "plant" and "vermin" 
    Carney, Terrence R (2016-07)
    The South African judicial system has a variety of ways to determine the ordinary meaning of words, ranging from preceding court cases and academic publications to expert witnesses. However, one of the main resources in ...
  • Using prototype theory to determine the ordinary meaning of words 
    Carney, Terrence R; Bergh, Luna (LexisNexis, 2016-08)
    The interpretation of words in case law is often a central focal point, especially when the ordinary meaning of words is contested. One of the more popular ways to determine the ordinary meaning of words is by looking it ...

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