Browsing Research Outputs (Afrikaans and Theory of Literature) by Subject "Research Subject Categories::HUMANITIES and RELIGION"

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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 ...
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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