Laurence Wright
Biographic Data
| ID | 3613541 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Laurence Wright |
| GIVEN NAMES | Laurence |
| FAMILY NAME | Wright |
| SIGNATURE | WRIGHT L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rhodes University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2988-3399 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 24 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
An Unsmoked Cigarette
Washington Allston’s “Belshazzar
A significant puzzle in Poe’s “The Masque of the Red Death” (1842) is how the plague manages to infiltrate the Prince’s “castellated abbey” to kill all those present. After all, readers are told th
Koringa and the Professor
Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author.Correction StatementThis article has been corrected with minor changes. These changes do not impact the academic content of the article
An Historical Source for the Indian Pre-history in Somerset Maugham’s The Hero
Caliban as a “Topsy Turvy” Grotesque
What might Caliban have looked like on the early modern stage? This article argues that at one point in The Tempest (2.2.56–107) Shakespeare presents on stage an elaborate theatregram invoking a sp
Naught for your comfort
Character palimpsests in Somerset Maugham’s The Moon and Sixpence
In probing the urbane characterization of Dirk Stroeve and Charles Strickland, two central figures in The Moon and Sixpence (1919), this essay investigates Somerset Maugham’s creative use of some d
Visualizing Mrs. Schomberg in Conrad’s Victory
Picturing” Mrs. Stroeve, in Somerset Maugham’s The Moon and Sixpence
In The Moon and Sixpence (1919), Maugham invokes identifiable paintings by Gauguin, anonymously, to build a fictive oeuvre for his anti-hero, the artist Charles Strickland, whose life story is roug
Trial, cook, and gun
Tom Sharpe's debut novel, Riotous Assembly (1971), plumbed new depths of political incorrectness in its scathing, ribald satire on apartheid South Africa. Its epigraph inscribes the farago to... all
The Shakespearean International Yearbook
The World Is What It Is”
V. S. Naipaul’s engagement with Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness (1899) in his 1979 novel, A Bend in the River, has elicited much comment, discussion often taking its cue from Naipaul’s remark tha
Translatio interrupta in V. S. Naipaul’s A Bend in the River
Instead of viewing V. S. Naipaul’s A Bend in the River (1979) as a slack replication of Heart of Darkness (1899) for a later age, as some earlier commentators have done (e.g., Nixon; Coetzee; Parro
Fictional” Texts in Somerset Maugham’s The Moon and Sixpence
The Moon and Sixpence (1919) draws on the life of Paul Gauguin in complex ways, some of them surprising. Not intended as fictionalized biography—the raw biographical facts are too plainly incompati
Retentir
This article explores a poetics of the railway station, focused mainly on South African examples, to show how the experience of railway travel can yield moments of enhanced being, sometimes captured in poems. Referencing philosophical insights from Henri Bergson and Gaston Bachelard, the piece suggests that railway stations deliver psycho-physical experiences hospitable to the compelling images poets occasionally develop from them. Of particular …
Nine lives of William Shakespeare
Shakespearean biography inhabits a curious zone of the hypothetical perfective: a few solid but scanty facts are teased this way and that at the behest of biographers to produce a convincing fictiv
Archdeacon Merriman, 'Caliban', and the Cattle-Killing of 1856-571
Language and value
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Shakespeare in South Africa
Why English dominates the central economy
This paper sets out to formulate some of the economic reasons for the continuing dominance of English in the boardrooms, government forums, parastatals and laboratories of South Africa, to consider whether this situation is likely to change, and to assess the extent to which such a state of affairs is at odds with South Africa’s new language policy. The historical reasons for the dominance of English in this sphere are well known: the language’s …
Citole
Gittern
Guy Butler
(2001). Guy Butler: 21 January 1918–26 April 2001. Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa: Vol. 13, No. 1, pp. 1-6
On the passivity of Newman's ‘gentleman’
(1999). On the passivity of Newman's ‘gentleman’: Negotiating incoherence. English Studies: Vol. 80, No. 3, pp. 239-246
When does the tragi‐comic disruption start
(1989). When does the tragi‐comic disruption start?: The winter's tale and leontes’ ‘affection’. English Studies: Vol. 70, No. 3, pp. 225-232
Why English dominates the central economy
This paper sets out to formulate some of the economic reasons for the continuing dominance of English in the boardrooms, government forums, parastatals and laboratories of South Africa, to consider whether this situation is likely to change, and to assess the extent to which such a state of affairs is at odds with South Africa’s new language policy. The historical reasons for the dominance of English in this sphere are well known: the language’s …
Language and value
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Guy Butler
(2001). Guy Butler: 21 January 1918–26 April 2001. Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa: Vol. 13, No. 1, pp. 1-6
Retentir
This article explores a poetics of the railway station, focused mainly on South African examples, to show how the experience of railway travel can yield moments of enhanced being, sometimes captured in poems. Referencing philosophical insights from Henri Bergson and Gaston Bachelard, the piece suggests that railway stations deliver psycho-physical experiences hospitable to the compelling images poets occasionally develop from them. Of particular …
When does the tragi‐comic disruption start
(1989). When does the tragi‐comic disruption start?: The winter's tale and leontes’ ‘affection’. English Studies: Vol. 70, No. 3, pp. 225-232
On the passivity of Newman's ‘gentleman’
(1999). On the passivity of Newman's ‘gentleman’: Negotiating incoherence. English Studies: Vol. 80, No. 3, pp. 239-246
Citole
Gittern
Guy Butler
(2001). Guy Butler: 21 January 1918–26 April 2001. Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa: Vol. 13, No. 1, pp. 1-6
Why English dominates the central economy
This paper sets out to formulate some of the economic reasons for the continuing dominance of English in the boardrooms, government forums, parastatals and laboratories of South Africa, to consider whether this situation is likely to change, and to assess the extent to which such a state of affairs is at odds with South Africa’s new language policy. The historical reasons for the dominance of English in this sphere are well known: the language’s …
Language and value
Preview this article: Language and value: Towards accepting a richer linguistic ecology for South Africa, Page 1 of 1 /docserver/preview/fulltext/lplp.28.2.05wri-1.gif
Shakespeare in South Africa
Archdeacon Merriman, 'Caliban', and the Cattle-Killing of 1856-571
Nine lives of William Shakespeare
Shakespearean biography inhabits a curious zone of the hypothetical perfective: a few solid but scanty facts are teased this way and that at the behest of biographers to produce a convincing fictiv
Fictional” Texts in Somerset Maugham’s The Moon and Sixpence
The Moon and Sixpence (1919) draws on the life of Paul Gauguin in complex ways, some of them surprising. Not intended as fictionalized biography—the raw biographical facts are too plainly incompati
Retentir
This article explores a poetics of the railway station, focused mainly on South African examples, to show how the experience of railway travel can yield moments of enhanced being, sometimes captured in poems. Referencing philosophical insights from Henri Bergson and Gaston Bachelard, the piece suggests that railway stations deliver psycho-physical experiences hospitable to the compelling images poets occasionally develop from them. Of particular …
The Shakespearean International Yearbook
The World Is What It Is”
V. S. Naipaul’s engagement with Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness (1899) in his 1979 novel, A Bend in the River, has elicited much comment, discussion often taking its cue from Naipaul’s remark tha
Translatio interrupta in V. S. Naipaul’s A Bend in the River
Instead of viewing V. S. Naipaul’s A Bend in the River (1979) as a slack replication of Heart of Darkness (1899) for a later age, as some earlier commentators have done (e.g., Nixon; Coetzee; Parro
Visualizing Mrs. Schomberg in Conrad’s Victory
Picturing” Mrs. Stroeve, in Somerset Maugham’s The Moon and Sixpence
In The Moon and Sixpence (1919), Maugham invokes identifiable paintings by Gauguin, anonymously, to build a fictive oeuvre for his anti-hero, the artist Charles Strickland, whose life story is roug
Trial, cook, and gun
Tom Sharpe's debut novel, Riotous Assembly (1971), plumbed new depths of political incorrectness in its scathing, ribald satire on apartheid South Africa. Its epigraph inscribes the farago to... all
Naught for your comfort
Character palimpsests in Somerset Maugham’s The Moon and Sixpence
In probing the urbane characterization of Dirk Stroeve and Charles Strickland, two central figures in The Moon and Sixpence (1919), this essay investigates Somerset Maugham’s creative use of some d
Caliban as a “Topsy Turvy” Grotesque
What might Caliban have looked like on the early modern stage? This article argues that at one point in The Tempest (2.2.56–107) Shakespeare presents on stage an elaborate theatregram invoking a sp
An Historical Source for the Indian Pre-history in Somerset Maugham’s The Hero
Koringa and the Professor
Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author.Correction StatementThis article has been corrected with minor changes. These changes do not impact the academic content of the article
An Unsmoked Cigarette
Washington Allston’s “Belshazzar
A significant puzzle in Poe’s “The Masque of the Red Death” (1842) is how the plague manages to infiltrate the Prince’s “castellated abbey” to kill all those present. After all, readers are told th
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