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Browsing Research Outputs (Afrikaans and Theory of Literature) by Author "Northover, Richard Alan"

Browsing Research Outputs (Afrikaans and Theory of Literature) by Author "Northover, Richard Alan"

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  • The archaeology of rock art and Western philosophy 
    Northover, Richard Alan (Routledge Taylor&Francis, 2014-08-12)
    The article aims to excavate some layers of Western philosophy in order to see how far Western thinkers can illuminate aspects of prehistoric rock art. It will focus on David Lewis-Williams’s neuropsychological and ...
  • Ecological apocalypse in Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam trilogy 
    Northover, Richard Alan (Routledge Taylor&Francis, 2016-01-20)
    Atwood comments that her MaddAddam trilogy is neither apocalyptic nor utopian. Nor is the Waterless Flood, the central catastrophic event around which the various narratives of the trilogy cohere, an ecological ...
  • Elizabeth Costello as a Socratic figure 
    Northover, Richard Alan (Institute for the Study of English in Africa Rhodes University P O Box 94 Grahamstown 6140, 2012-05)
    J.M. Coetzee’s use of the persona, Elizabeth Costello, in several short pieces as well as in The Lives of Animals, Elizabeth Costello and Slow Man has had a mixed reaction amongst reviewers and critics, and Costello herself, ...
  • Human identity and animal ethics in J.M. Coetzee’s The lives of animals 
    Northover, Richard Alan (Routledge, 2009-12-16)
    The article aims to position JM Coetzee’s The lives of animals within the animal rights debate and assess both his use of and his failure to use key philosophical texts in the animal rights movement. This task is complicated ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...

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