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Ingeplaaste skryf as vergestalting van ekosentriese ingesteldheid in Petra Müller se verhaalkuns : original research
Source: Literator : Journal of Literary Criticism, Comparative Linguistics and Literary Studies 35, pp 1 –12 (2014) http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/lit.v35i2.1080
Die mens-aarde-verbintenis is &apos;n deurlopende tema in die oeuvre van Petra Müller. In dié artikel word gefokus op hierdie band soos gereflekteer in haar prosakuns en spesifiek in verhale met &apos;n outobiografiese inslag. Die doel is om die natuurgesentreerde aard van Müller se verhaalkuns te beklemtoon deur aandag te vestig op die wyse waarop die skrywer (die &apos;ek&apos; in verhale waarin die verteller identifiseerbaar is as die skrywer self) deel word - op sensoriese, emotiewe en intellektuele vlak - van die omgewing in die natuur waarin sy haar bevind en hoe sy daarop reageer. Sentraal in die ondersoek staan die wyse waarop hierdie reaktiewe betrokkenheid in Müller se prosa gemanifesteer word deur die implisiete outeur en die tegniek van ingeplaaste skryf. &apos;Emplaced writing&apos; is &apos;n konsep deur Linda Russo geskep en geïntegreer deur Susan Smith met die idee van Lawrence Buell van &apos;emplacement&apos; om te verwys na die tegniek wat uitdrukking gee aan &apos;n aktiewe bewus wees van die self en van die plek wat fisiek deur die skrywer in beslag geneem word en hoe die liggaam daarin pas. Vollediger perspektief op en groter waardering vir Müller se werk spruit uit begrip vir hoe haar noulettende saamleef met die aarde ook in haar verhaalkuns gereflekteer word via die ingeplaaste skryftegniek wat in die artikel ondersoek word en wat aan &apos;n sterk ekosentriese ingesteldheid stem gee.
Emplaced writing figuring as a manifestation of an ecocentric mindset in the narrative art of Petra Müller. The human-earth connection is a sustained theme in Petra Müller&apos;s oeuvre. The article focuses on this connection as reflected in her narrative art, specifically in accounts that have an autobiographical proclivity. The aim of this article is to outline the nature-centred disposition of Müller&apos;s narrative art in a more definite sense. This is achieved by paying attention to the manner in which the author (the &apos;I&apos; in accounts where the narrator can be identified as the author herself) becomes part of the natural environment - whether on a sensory, an emotive, or an intellectual level - where she finds herself and the way she responds to it. At the core of the investigation are the ways in which this reactive engagement is manifested in Müller&apos;s prose work by the implied author and the technique of emplaced writing. Emplaced writing, a concept created by Linda Russo, was integrated by Susan Smith with Lawrence Buell&apos;s concept of emplacement. This term refers to the technique allowing an active awareness of self and the place physically occupied by the author, as well as how that body fits into this place, to find expression. A broader perspective and greater appreciation of Müller&apos;s work are drawn from the insight into how her close coexistence with the earth is reflected in her narrative art by means of the technique of emplaced writing which is explored in this article as it gives voice to a strong ecocentric disposition.
Van sterre tot sterre
Aantrekkingskrag - &apos;n Drama vir die verhoog, Deon Opperman : book review
Author Salomi Louw
Source: Literator : Journal of Literary Criticism, Comparative Linguistics and Literary Studies 35, pp 1 –2 (2014) http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/lit.v35i2.1107
Die publikasie van Afrikaanse dramas is altyd welkom. Opperman is een van die gelukkige (en begaafde) dramaturge wie se teaterstukke gereeld ook as publikasies verskyn en dikwels met pryse bekroon word. Die feit dat hy die Herzogprys vir drama reeds twee keer gewen het, dra natuurlik by tot die aansien van hierdie teaterman.
Verskillende wêrelde teen die lig gehou
Teen die lig: Gedigte, Hennie Aucamp : book review
Author Heinrich Ohlhoff
Source: Literator : Journal of Literary Criticism, Comparative Linguistics and Literary Studies 35, pp 1 –2 (2014) http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/literator.v35i2.1096
&apos;n Boeiende leeservaring. Só sou &apos;n mens Hennie Aucamp se jongste digbundel, opgedra aan Johann de Lange, kon tipeer - nie omdat dit diepsinnig filosofies wil wees nie, maar omdat dit in taal verskillende wêrelde &apos;teen die lig hou&apos; en voor die leser laat oopgaan: &apos;n vergange jeugwêreld, die wêreld van kuns en kunstenaars, die wêreld van die vroegste bewoners van Suid-Afrika, die wêreld van hulle wat nie meer daar is nie ..
Baarde, briewe en barmhartigheid, Doc Immelman : book review
Source: Literator : Journal of Literary Criticism, Comparative Linguistics and Literary Studies 35 (2014) http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/lit.v35i2.1112
Met die afsterwe van Doc Immelman in Maart 2013 het die Afrikaanse ontspanningliteratuur een van sy mees produktiewe skrywers verloor. Veral bekend vir sy avontuurverhale, wat dikwels teen die agtergrond van Namibiese (of dan Suidwes-gegewe) vistas ontvou, het hy &apos;n allemintige getal publikasies die lig laat sien. Protea Boekhuis het &apos;n groot rol gespeel om heelwat van Immelman se tekste (11 altesaam) weer uit te gee en dit sodoende vir belangstellendes beskikbaar te stel. Een van hierdie werke is Baarde, briewe en barmhartigheid, &apos;n keuse van rubrieke wat indertyd in publikasies soos die Suidwes Afrikaner, Die Suidwester, Tempo en die Republikein verskyn het.
Law, language and the multilingual state :Conference proceedings of the 12th International Conference of the International Academy of Linguistic Law, Claudine Brohy, Theodorus du Plessis, Joseph G. Turl & José Woehrling (Eds.) : book review
Author Michael Laubscher
Source: Literator : Journal of Literary Criticism, Comparative Linguistics and Literary Studies 35, pp 1 –3 (2014) http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/lit.v35i2.1106
Van crèche tot wieg : eerste vertaling nie sonder probleme nie
Suid-Afrikaanse Taalregtemonitor 2008 /South African Language Rights Monitor 2008, Johan Lubbe & Theodorus du Plessis : book review
Author Anna N. Otto
Source: Literator : Journal of Literary Criticism, Comparative Linguistics and Literary Studies 35, pp 1 –3 (2014) http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/lit.v35i2.1104
Die Suid-Afrikaase Taalregtemonitor 2008 is die eerste jaarverslag oor die stand van taalregte en taalaangeleenthede in Suid-Afrika wat tweetalig is. Dit is &apos;n positiewe stap, aangesien passievolle Afrikaanssprekendes nou kennis van hierdie sake kan neem in hul eie taal.
Uit die hemel en hel : litera
Source: Literator : Journal of Literary Criticism, Comparative Linguistics and Literary Studies 35 (2014) http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/lit.v35i2.1066
Karel se bestemming : litera
Source: Literator : Journal of Literary Criticism, Comparative Linguistics and Literary Studies 35, pp 1 –4 (2014) http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/lit.v35i2.1079
Hoe hy nou weer in Boston beland het, onthou Karel nie juis nie. Hy het in die United se vet en blou pens op Logan geland, nadat hy &apos;n verbindingsvlug in Frankfurt geneem het; die prentjie van die een of ander engelagtige slanke kraanvoël op die eindelose spits skagte van die logge Lufthansabuise het hom geïnteresseer, selfs &apos;n bietjie gehipnotiseer, terwyl hy langs een van die hoë en breë lughawevensters gesit en wag het, aan &apos;n koffietjie gesit en drink het, deur &apos;n boek geblaai het.
Achieving form in autobiography : original research
Author Nicholas (Nick) Meihuizen
Source: Literator : Journal of Literary Criticism, Comparative Linguistics and Literary Studies 35, pp 1 –7 (2014) http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/lit.v35i2.1143
This article argues that, unlike biographies which tend to follow patterns based on conventional expectations, salient autobiographies achieve forms unique to themselves. The article draws on ideas from contemporary formalists such as Peter McDonald and Angela Leighton but also considers ideas on significant form stemming from earlier writers and critics such as P.N. Furbank and Willa Cather. In extracting from these writers the elements of what they consider comprise achieved form, the article does not seek to provide a rigid means of objectively testing the formal attributes of a piece of writing. It rather offers qualitative reminders of the need to be alert to the importance of form, even if the precise nature of this importance is not possible to define. Form is involved in meaning, and this continuously opens up possibilities regarding the reader&apos;s relationship with the work in question. French genetic critic Debray Genette distinguishes between &apos;semantic effect&apos; (the direct telling involved in writing) and &apos;semiological effect&apos; (the indirect signification involved). It is the latter, the article argues in summation, which gives a work its singular nature, producing a form that is not predictable but suggestive, imaginative.
&apos;Op de wijze van Kavafis&apos; : die voorbeeld van die digter uit Alexandrië : original research
Source: Literator : Journal of Literary Criticism, Comparative Linguistics and Literary Studies 35, pp 1 –10 (2014) http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/lit.v35i2.1147
Die Griekse digter K.P. Kavafis (1863-1933) word wêreldwyd deur lesers sowel as skrywers besonder hoog geag. Hy het nie net van die grootste twintigste-eeuse skrywers beïnvloed nie, maar is vanweë die buitengewone vertaalbaarheid van sy werk ook betreklik sterk teenwoordig in die letterkunde van meer tale as slegs Grieks en Engels. Vir baie - veral gay lesers, skrywers en kunstenaars - besit Kavafis &apos;n voorbeeldstatus, ten opsigte van die letterkunde sowel as die lewe. W.H. Auden het beweer dat dit wat Kavafis onderskei, sy stemtoon is, een wat &apos;n persoon met &apos;n unieke perspektief op die wêreld openbaar. Hierdie bydrae, wat deel is van &apos;n navorsingsprojek oor idiolektiese skrywersidentiteit, is daarop gerig om die onderskeidende kenmerke van Kavafis se werk, sowel in terme van vorm as inhoud, opnuut te ondersoek. Dit word gedoen binne die raamwerk van die breë kritiese diskoers oor Kavafis en met verwysing na enkele manifestasies/voorbeelde van Nederlandse en Afrikaanse kritiese en kreatiewe perspektiewe op sy poësie, met die doel om spesifiek lig te werp op die besondere soort wysheid wat in Kavafis se werk oorgedra word.
&apos;In the manner of Cavafy&apos; : the example of the poet from Alexandria
The Greek poet C.P. Cavafy (1863-1933) is held in high esteem around the world by readers and authors alike. He had influenced not only some of the greatest authors of the twentieth century, but due to the fact that his work lends itself particularly well to translation, he is also a relatively strong presence in literatures other than Greek and English. For many - most notably gay readers, authors and artists - Cavafy holds an exemplary status both in terms of literature and life. W.H. Auden has argued that, what ultimately distinguishes Cavafy, is his tone of voice which reveals a person with a unique perspective on the world. Within the context of a research project on idiolectic author identity, this contribution attempts to review the distinguishing features of Cavafy&apos;s work in terms of both form and content. This is done within the framework of the broad critical discourse on Cavafy, and with reference to some manifestations or examples of a Dutch and Afrikaans critical and creative perspective on his poetry, with the aim to shed specific light on the special kind of wisdom communicated in Cavafy&apos;s work.
Boom bomer boomste en die idiolek van Elsabe Steenberg : original research
Author Elizabeth S. Van der Westhuizen
Source: Literator : Journal of Literary Criticism, Comparative Linguistics and Literary Studies 35, pp 1 –11 (2014) http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/lit.v35i2.1153
Elsabe Steenberg se oeuvre, wat onder meer bestaan uit 42 verhale in boekvorm, het &apos;n ryk tekstuur en opvallende diepte aan lewensinsig. Dit is duidelik dat, vanuit &apos;n intertekstuele oogpunt beskou, die oorweging van haar hele oeuvre &apos;n wyse kan wees om aspekte van haar idiolek te akkumuleer en te ondersoek. Hierdie idiolek kan egter ook, nadat al haar werk oorsigtelik of in diepte ondersoek is, uit die lees van een verteenwoordigende werk uit haar oeuvre aangetoon word. Die teks wat gekies is vir die doel van hierdie artikel is &apos;n jeugverhaal waarin die boomsimboliek gemanifesteer word in verskeie semantiese permutasies wat bydra tot die teksinterne lewensvisie - Boom bomer boomste, ook in Engels beskikbaar onder die titel Tree-more, tree-most. Die boom as objek en hoe dit in die verhaal funksioneer om deel te word van die tema en die grondliggende lewensvisie in hierdie jeugverhaal, kan tot in die fynste besonderhede ondersoek word indien die doel is om dikwels herhalende tekens te vind wat as verteenwoordigend van die idiolek van die outeur beskou kan word. Die gebruik van die boomsimboliek in die verhaalwêrelde van Elsabe Steenberg dui op een van die belangrikste tekens wat bydra tot haar idiolek: God is die Oorsprong en die Krag in die geheel van haar lewe en werk.
Boom bomer boomste and the idiolect of Elsabe Steenberg
Elsabe Steenberg&apos;s oeuvre, consisting among others of 42 narratives in book format, is richly textured and represents a notable depth of insight into the complexities of life. It is clear that, from an intertextual point of view, considering the entire body of her work is a way of accumulating evidence in order to discern aspects of her distinctive idiolect. This idiolect, however, also emerges when contemplating a representative work from her oeuvre. The text selected for this article, a youth novel in which the symbolism of trees manifests itself in various semantic permutations, communicating the author&apos;s intrinsic life and world view, is Boom bomer boomste, also available in English under the title Tree-more, tree-most. The tree as object and how it functions in the narrative to become part of the theme, as well as the vision of life in this youth novel, can be scrutinised minutely if the effort is aimed at finding frequent recurring signs that may be regarded as representative of the author&apos;s idiolect. The use of the tree symbolism in the narrative worlds of Elsabe Steenberg points toward the most prolific sign contributing to this author&apos;s idiolect: God is the Origin and the regenerating Force in the universe of Elsabe Steenberg&apos;s life and work.
&apos;Everything is autobiographical&apos;: Hans-Ulrich Treichel&apos;s idiolect in Lost (1999) : original research
Author Philip Van der Merwe
Source: Literator : Journal of Literary Criticism, Comparative Linguistics and Literary Studies 35, pp 1 –9 (2014) http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/lit.v35i2.1151
Joachim Dicks writes in his review on Hans-Ulrich Treichel&apos;s latest novel, Frühe Störung, that the author shows continuity by having developed in all of his books a unique and unmistakeable style that he calls &apos;the so-called Treichel sound&apos;. Treichel&apos;s style, tone and mixture of thematic concerns in all of his eleven works of prose from Von Leib und Seele: Berichte up to Frühe Störung are indeed recognisable as distinctively Treichel, but has remained an unexplored terrain. The question therefore arises: What is the nature of the so-called &apos;Treichel sound&apos; or his idiolect? Lost is a case in point with regard to Treichel&apos;s idiolect: the narration includes factual historical and autobiographic information that represents both an &apos;official life&apos; and a &apos;carnival&apos;, i.e. his representations of lives are determined by two aspects of the world: the aspect of the piety of seriousness and by the aspect of laughter. This article firstly focuses on the theoretical possibility of using &apos;serious&apos; factual autobiographic and historical information in combination with humour. The most prominent idiolectic traits of Treichel&apos;s oeuvre are then introduced, also in order to provide a context for the following discussion of Lost. Here it becomes apparent that Treichel&apos;s humour has a tragicomical and derisive effect with regard to the narrator&apos;s depiction of his childhood, family experiences and his cultural context. The microcosmic family context and the macrocosmic national and international contexts as they were formed because of the Second World War has lead to a loss of the narrator&apos;s identity. The result of Treichel&apos;s manner of dealing with serious contents that includes humour is the creation of a self-concept that can be described as self-exploratory, honest or confessional, self-centred, humorous and critical of German society - and these are also key features of Treichel&apos;s idiolect. This article thus argues that the combination of fictionalised serious historical and autobiographic factuality and humour characterises the &apos;Treichel sound&apos;.
&apos;Alles is outobiografies&apos; : Hans- Ulrich Treichel se idiolek in Lost (1999)
Joachim Dicks skryf in sy resensie oor Hans-Ulrich Treichel se nuutste roman, Frühe Störung, dat die outeur kontinuïteit vertoon deurdat hy in al sy boeke &apos;n unieke en onmiskenbare styl ontwikkel het wat hy die &apos;Treichel-klank&apos; noem. Treichel se styl, toon en mengsel van tematiese belangstellings in al elf sy prosawerke van Von Leib und Seele: Berichte tot Frühe Störung is inderdaad herkenbaar as &apos;kenmerkend Treichel&apos;. Tot dusver is dit nog &apos;n onontdekte terrein. Die vraag kom dus na vore: Wat is die aard van die sogenaamde &apos;Treichel-klank&apos; of sy idiolek? Lost is &apos;n tipiese voorbeeld ten opsigte van Treichel se idiolek: Die narratief sluit feitelike historiese en outobiografiese gegewens in wat sowel &apos;n &apos;amptelike lewe&apos; én &apos;n &apos;karnaval&apos; insluit, dit wil sê sy representasies van lewens word deur twee aspekte van die wêreld bepaal: die aspek van vroomheid en erns en die aspek van &apos;n gelag. Hierdie artikel fokus eerstens op die teoretiese moontlikheid daarvan om &apos;ernstige&apos; feitelike outobiografiese en historiese inligting in kombinasie met humor te gebruik. Die kernaspekte van Treichel se oeuvre word daarna bekend gestel, ook met die doel om &apos;n vergelykbare konteks vir die bespreking van Lost te bied. Hier word dit duidelik dat Treichel se humor &apos;n tragikomiese en minagtende effek het ten opsigte van die verteller se uitbeelding van sy kindertyd, sy ervaringe binne sy gesin en sy kulturele konteks. Die mikrokosmiese gesinskonteks en die makrokosmiese nasionale en internasionale kontekste soos wat hulle as gevolg van die Tweede Wêreldoorlog gevorm is, het gelei tot die verlies aan die verteller se identiteit. Die gevolg van Treichel se manier van omgaan met ernstige inhoude wat ook humor insluit, is die skepping van &apos;n self-konsep wat as self-ondersoekend, eerlik of biegtend, selfgesentreerd, humoristies en krities teenoor die Duitse gemeenskap beskryf kan word. Hierdie eienskappe is ook kernaspekte van Treichel se idiolek. Die artikel argumenteer dus dat die kombinasie van gefiksionaliseerde ernstige historiese en outobiografiese feitelikheid en humor die &apos;Treichel-klank&apos; kenmerk.
&apos;Die choreografie van ontwyking&apos; : die poëtiese krag van negativering by Elisabeth Eybers : original research
Source: Literator : Journal of Literary Criticism, Comparative Linguistics and Literary Studies 35, pp 1 –9 (2014) http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/lit.v35i2.1138
Hierdie artikel is &apos;n verkenning van die opvallende gebruik van woorde met die voorvoegsels on- en ont-, asook ander negatiewe, negativerende woorde, of terme van afstroping (soos die woord sonder en die agtervoegsel -loos, e.d.m.), in Elisabeth Eybers se poësie. Dit is &apos;n hermeneutiese ondersoek van die moontlikhede wat negativerende uitdrukkings bied, en na die rol wat hulle in haar poësie en poëtika speel. Eybers roep dikwels &apos;n alternatiewe wêreld deur negativering op. Dit is tekenend van haar digterlike ingesteldheid en haar poëtika.
&apos;The choreography of evasion&apos; : the poetical power of negation in the work of Elisabeth Eybers
This article is an exploration of the striking use of words with the prefixes on- and ont-, as well as other negatives, markers of negation or terms and affixes of deprivation, like sonder, -loos, etcetera, in Elisabeth Eybers&apos;s poetry. It is a hermeneutic investigation into the possibilities of expression offered by negation and the role they play in her poetry and poetic conception. Eybers often creates an alternative world by means of negation. This is typical of her poetics and poetical stance.
Inleiding - die idiolek van &apos;n skrywer : preface
Source: Literator : Journal of Literary Criticism, Comparative Linguistics and Literary Studies 35, pp 1 –3 (2014) http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/lit.v35i2.1156
Hierdie uitgawe van Literator word gewy aan die idiolekte van skrywers, &apos;n verskynsel wat ook beskryf word as skrywersidentiteit en wat te make het met die unieke en eiesoortige, die kenmerkende styl en die stilistiese en tematiese merkers in die oeuvre van &apos;n bepaalde skrywer. Idiolektiese verskynsels in taalgebruik kan vanuit verskillende hoeke benader word, onder meer vanuit die filosofie, die linguistiek en die literêre teorie, en daar kan aanvaar word dat die verskillende benaderinge tot die verskynsel mekaar wedersyds beïnvloed, en dus onderskei maar nie geskei kan word nie. Daarom vind &apos;n mens dat in die meeste idiolektiese studies daar verwys word na letterkundige sowel as linguistiese bronne en dat daar van werkwyses uit verskillende dissiplines gebruik gemaak word (vgl. Coulthard 2004).