David Medalie
Biographic Data
| ID | 1744012 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Medalie |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Medalie |
| SIGNATURE | MEDALIE D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pretoria |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1080-3072 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
South African Poets on Poetry
Tydskrif vir Letterkunde is an online, peer-reviewed, accredited scholarly journal which publishes original, previously unpublished research and overview articles on theoretical, applied or comparative aspects of African literatures and cultural practices.
“What dignity is there in that?”
This article offers an investigation of the concept of dignity and of some of the ways in which it has been represented in a number of late‐twentieth‐century novels. Discussions of dignity centre, on the one hand, upon qualities which the personality reveals in and of itself, and, on the other, upon ethical imperatives relating to how the individual should behave in relation to others. Debates about dignity thus open up questions of ontology, sel…
A Century Later
The centenary of the Boer War has prompted the publication of a number of new fictional representations of the event. These include Giles Foden’s Ladysmith1 and Elleke Boehmer’s Bloodlines2. Despite their shared focus on the war, the two novels are strikingly different; for that very reason, it is illuminating to bring them into juxtaposition and to consider them in comparative terms. Nevertheless, what they both demonstrate is a desire to repres…
E.M. Forster's Modernism
Liberal-Humanism 'Romantic Realism' The Debate about Form The Manuscripts of A Passage to India Looking Past Polemic: Forster and Modernism Works Cited
Such wanton innocence’
The Context of the Awful Event
The House Gun (1998) is the first novel by Nadine Gordimer to be set firmly in post-apartheid South Africa. In this work, Gordimer explores questions of individual and social responsibility in the context of widespread violence. The central incident is a murder that seems to have no obvious political (or even specifically South African) etiology or ramifications. Nonetheless, Gordimer uses this enigmatic crime and its repercussions to probe obliq…
Friday updated
(1997). Friday updated: Robinson Crusoe as sub‐text in Gordimer's July's people and Coetzee's foe. Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa: Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 43-54
Old scars, old bones, and old secrets
Mark Behr, The Smell of Apples (Abacus, London, 1995), 200 pp. Steve Jacobs, The Enemy Within (Heinemann, Oxford, 1995), 185 pp. David Lambkin, The Hanging Tree (Viking Penguin, London, 1995) 385 pp
Old scars, old bones, and old secrets
Mark Behr, The Smell of Apples (Abacus, London, 1995), 200 pp. Steve Jacobs, The Enemy Within (Heinemann, Oxford, 1995), 185 pp. David Lambkin, The Hanging Tree (Viking Penguin, London, 1995) 385 pp
A Century Later
The centenary of the Boer War has prompted the publication of a number of new fictional representations of the event. These include Giles Foden’s Ladysmith1 and Elleke Boehmer’s Bloodlines2. Despite their shared focus on the war, the two novels are strikingly different; for that very reason, it is illuminating to bring them into juxtaposition and to consider them in comparative terms. Nevertheless, what they both demonstrate is a desire to repres…
The Context of the Awful Event
The House Gun (1998) is the first novel by Nadine Gordimer to be set firmly in post-apartheid South Africa. In this work, Gordimer explores questions of individual and social responsibility in the context of widespread violence. The central incident is a murder that seems to have no obvious political (or even specifically South African) etiology or ramifications. Nonetheless, Gordimer uses this enigmatic crime and its repercussions to probe obliq…
Friday updated
(1997). Friday updated: Robinson Crusoe as sub‐text in Gordimer's July's people and Coetzee's foe. Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa: Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 43-54
Old scars, old bones, and old secrets
Mark Behr, The Smell of Apples (Abacus, London, 1995), 200 pp. Steve Jacobs, The Enemy Within (Heinemann, Oxford, 1995), 185 pp. David Lambkin, The Hanging Tree (Viking Penguin, London, 1995) 385 pp
The Context of the Awful Event
The House Gun (1998) is the first novel by Nadine Gordimer to be set firmly in post-apartheid South Africa. In this work, Gordimer explores questions of individual and social responsibility in the context of widespread violence. The central incident is a murder that seems to have no obvious political (or even specifically South African) etiology or ramifications. Nonetheless, Gordimer uses this enigmatic crime and its repercussions to probe obliq…
Such wanton innocence’
E.M. Forster's Modernism
Liberal-Humanism 'Romantic Realism' The Debate about Form The Manuscripts of A Passage to India Looking Past Polemic: Forster and Modernism Works Cited
“What dignity is there in that?”
This article offers an investigation of the concept of dignity and of some of the ways in which it has been represented in a number of late‐twentieth‐century novels. Discussions of dignity centre, on the one hand, upon qualities which the personality reveals in and of itself, and, on the other, upon ethical imperatives relating to how the individual should behave in relation to others. Debates about dignity thus open up questions of ontology, sel…
A Century Later
The centenary of the Boer War has prompted the publication of a number of new fictional representations of the event. These include Giles Foden’s Ladysmith1 and Elleke Boehmer’s Bloodlines2. Despite their shared focus on the war, the two novels are strikingly different; for that very reason, it is illuminating to bring them into juxtaposition and to consider them in comparative terms. Nevertheless, what they both demonstrate is a desire to repres…
South African Poets on Poetry
Tydskrif vir Letterkunde is an online, peer-reviewed, accredited scholarly journal which publishes original, previously unpublished research and overview articles on theoretical, applied or comparative aspects of African literatures and cultural practices.
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