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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 ...
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 ...
'n Taalkundige perspektief op woordeboekgebruik in die hof: die woordeboek as toevlugsoord

Carney, Terrence R; Bergh, Luna (2014-08)

One of the most important functions of a court of law is to interpret statutes. The interpretation of statutes can be a difficult task, especially when a court has been given the responsibility to address words or phrases ...
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 ...
Being (im)polite: A forensic linguistic approach to interpreting a hate speech case

Carney, Terrence R (2014-12)

In a hate speech case a court might have to determine whether a person’s words were hurtful or harmful. Would it be possible to determine whether words are hurtful or harmful by using linguistics? This article offers a ...
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 ...
Portrait of an Afrikaner revolutionary: Harry Kalmer's The Bram Fischer Waltz

Keuris, Marisa (Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2015-07-02)

Nelson Mandela and seven of his comrades were sentenced to life imprisonment for treason on 12 June 1964 (the final day of the notorious Rivonia trial). The leader for the defence was an Afrikaner, Bram Fischer. In Kalmer's ...
‘Restitutions of Body and Soil’ in Mies Julie (2012): South African theatre audience receptions of Yaël Farber’s adaptation of Strindberg’s Miss Julie within a post-apartheid South African political landscape

Keuris, Marisa (2016)

Yaël Farber’s 2012 adaptation of August Strindberg’s classic play Miss Julie entitled Mies Julie and subtitled Restitutions of Body and Soil since The Bantu Land Act No. 27 of 1913 and The Immorality Act No. 5 of 1927, ...
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 ...
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 ...
Bollywood Cinema: A Transnational/Cultural Role

Keuris, Marisa; Ayob, Asma (2017)
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 ...
Nicola Hanekom’s Land van skedels – A Remembrance of Things Past and Present

Keuris, Marisa (2018)

Nicola Hanekom’s Land van Skedels had its premiere at the Clover Aardklop National Arts Festival in October 2013 and this production, as well as later ones, received glowing receptions from both theatre audience and ...
Disposing of bodies, semantically: Notes on the meaning of 'disposal' in S v Molefe

Carney, Terrence R (Potchefstroom Electroniese Regsjoernaal, 2018)

In S v Molefe the presiding officer determines the meaning of the word "disposal" at the hand of two criteria, namely visibility and permanence; this means a body has to be permanently out of sight to be considered disposed ...
Magrita Prinslo (1896), Magdalena Retief (1938) and Mies Julie (2012): from historical Afrikaner Mothers of the Nation to a modern Afrikanermeisie (girl): a postcolonial reading of Farber’s Mies Julie

Keuris, Marisa (Taylor & Francis, 2019)
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 ...
A Call to Revise Section 8(2)(e) of the Occupational Health and Safety Act to Include Crisis Risk Communication

Carney, Terrence R; Mollema, Nina (Juta, 2019-07)

This article gauges s 8 of South Africa’s Occupational Health and Safety Act and highlights its lack of clarity and prescriptive guidelines on crisis risk communication. Paragraph 8(2)(e) specifically obliges employers to ...
Migration theatre in South Africa with reference to Mike van Graan’s When swallows cry

Keuris, Marisa (Taylor & Francis, 2020)

In this article a discussion on migrant theatre in South Africa is given, with special reference to Mike van Graan’s play When Swallows Cry (2017). In the introduction a short background is given in terms of migration ...

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