Greg Graham-Smith
Biographic Data
| ID | 3923013 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Greg Graham-Smith |
| GIVEN NAMES | Greg |
| FAMILY NAME | Graham-Smith |
| SIGNATURE | GRAHAM-SMITH G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of South Africa |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0302-8303 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Intersecting Geographies/Intertextual Traces
This article explores Michael Cunningham’s 2010 novel, By Nightfall along with its suggestive fragments of Thomas Mann’s novella Death in Venice (1912). In an examination of two beautiful young men, Tadzio in Death in Venice and Mizzy in By Nightfall , the article investigates the dialectic between (queered) desire and death/self-dissolution. Through a deployment of Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalytic theory, the article will interrogate the per…
Flaunting dissonance
The Twyborn Affair (1979) is generally regarded as Patrick White’s covert “coming out” novel, followed by his frank “confession” in his autobiography, Flaws in the Glass (1981). However, this article explores how even an earlier work such as The Aunt’s Story (1977/1948), from the Nobel laureate’s modernist phase, may be seen as a pre-text for the gay self, whereby the author stages incomplete representations of his own subaltern position in the c…
In memoriam
In memoriam: Karen Isabel Scherzinger, 4 February 1962–26 May 2019." Scrutiny2, 23(2-3), pp. 2–3
Burned into being
In an examination of Wajdi Mouawad's play, Incendies (2003) and the 2010 film version of the play directed and scripted by Denis Villeneuve, this article explores the quest narrative as it underpins these texts, with particular reference to exile, trauma and reparation. The suggestive trope of “home” as this intersects with identity, and the threat to identity posed by war and suffering, as well as the palimpsestic construction and reconstruction…
Self-Propagation and Self-Dissolution
Gregory Graham-Smithâ s aim in this article â is to examine the way in which Patrick Whiteâ s acts of self-inscription in *Flaws in the Glass*, despite being rendered as acts, structured within the trope of theatricality, ultimately serve the homeostasis of conventional humanist portraiture, rather than the subversive fragmentation of the self which one finds in his novels. Of particular concern are the ways in which this self-propagation/dissolu…
Sexuality and the multicursal maze in Alan Hollinghurst's The stranger's child
Taking its cue from the photograph on the dust-jacket of the Picador hardback 2011 edition of Alan Hollinghurst's latest novel, The stranger's child, this article aims to explore the maze as metaphor for the novel's complex meditation on sexuality and its imbrication with the instability of memory and the unstable narrative trope of concealment and revelation, elegy and erasure. The multicursal, as opposed to the unicursal, maze is one where choi…
Collegiality
This paper raises pressing issues regarding the present and future of the university. It is strongly critical of worldwide corporatisation and the response of academics to what the authors consider to be a crisis or impasse. As a mark of capitalist ascendancy, the university as corporate has, it would seem, lost its soul and its autonomy. The focus on collegiality invokes the communitarian and independent spirit which has for centuries been the f…
Half in love with easeful Death’
The title and introduction of this article draw on Keats's evocative line, “half in love with easeful Death”, taken from his “Ode to a nightingale”, a poem which is used as a point of entry for a discussion of the paradoxical contiguity between sex and death, Eros and Thanatos. Against the background of Romantic and Renaissance preoccupations with the sex-death dialectic, the article offers a contemporary perspective on this issue through an inve…
Collegiality
This paper raises pressing issues regarding the present and future of the university. It is strongly critical of worldwide corporatisation and the response of academics to what the authors consider to be a crisis or impasse. As a mark of capitalist ascendancy, the university as corporate has, it would seem, lost its soul and its autonomy. The focus on collegiality invokes the communitarian and independent spirit which has for centuries been the f…
Half in love with easeful Death’
The title and introduction of this article draw on Keats's evocative line, “half in love with easeful Death”, taken from his “Ode to a nightingale”, a poem which is used as a point of entry for a discussion of the paradoxical contiguity between sex and death, Eros and Thanatos. Against the background of Romantic and Renaissance preoccupations with the sex-death dialectic, the article offers a contemporary perspective on this issue through an inve…
Sexuality and the multicursal maze in Alan Hollinghurst's The stranger's child
Taking its cue from the photograph on the dust-jacket of the Picador hardback 2011 edition of Alan Hollinghurst's latest novel, The stranger's child, this article aims to explore the maze as metaphor for the novel's complex meditation on sexuality and its imbrication with the instability of memory and the unstable narrative trope of concealment and revelation, elegy and erasure. The multicursal, as opposed to the unicursal, maze is one where choi…
Collegiality
This paper raises pressing issues regarding the present and future of the university. It is strongly critical of worldwide corporatisation and the response of academics to what the authors consider to be a crisis or impasse. As a mark of capitalist ascendancy, the university as corporate has, it would seem, lost its soul and its autonomy. The focus on collegiality invokes the communitarian and independent spirit which has for centuries been the f…
Self-Propagation and Self-Dissolution
Gregory Graham-Smithâ s aim in this article â is to examine the way in which Patrick Whiteâ s acts of self-inscription in *Flaws in the Glass*, despite being rendered as acts, structured within the trope of theatricality, ultimately serve the homeostasis of conventional humanist portraiture, rather than the subversive fragmentation of the self which one finds in his novels. Of particular concern are the ways in which this self-propagation/dissolu…
Burned into being
In an examination of Wajdi Mouawad's play, Incendies (2003) and the 2010 film version of the play directed and scripted by Denis Villeneuve, this article explores the quest narrative as it underpins these texts, with particular reference to exile, trauma and reparation. The suggestive trope of “home” as this intersects with identity, and the threat to identity posed by war and suffering, as well as the palimpsestic construction and reconstruction…
In memoriam
In memoriam: Karen Isabel Scherzinger, 4 February 1962–26 May 2019." Scrutiny2, 23(2-3), pp. 2–3
Flaunting dissonance
The Twyborn Affair (1979) is generally regarded as Patrick White’s covert “coming out” novel, followed by his frank “confession” in his autobiography, Flaws in the Glass (1981). However, this article explores how even an earlier work such as The Aunt’s Story (1977/1948), from the Nobel laureate’s modernist phase, may be seen as a pre-text for the gay self, whereby the author stages incomplete representations of his own subaltern position in the c…
Intersecting Geographies/Intertextual Traces
This article explores Michael Cunningham’s 2010 novel, By Nightfall along with its suggestive fragments of Thomas Mann’s novella Death in Venice (1912). In an examination of two beautiful young men, Tadzio in Death in Venice and Mizzy in By Nightfall , the article investigates the dialectic between (queered) desire and death/self-dissolution. Through a deployment of Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalytic theory, the article will interrogate the per…
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