Alan Brimer
Biographic Data
| ID | 5819748 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alan Brimer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alan |
| FAMILY NAME | Brimer |
| SIGNATURE | BRIMER A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of KwaZulu-Natal |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1965 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
A speculation on the nature of texts
This essay briefly rehearses the argument for thinking of texts as culture‐bound phenomena which exist only in the value‐laden act of reading. It discriminates between the material world and the knowable world, and situates writing in the first and text‐production in the second. It suggests limits to the relativity of text‐production in terms of the limited cultural contexts in which it takes place. On the basis of these ideas it goes on to consi…
Teaching a theory‐based English syllabus
“The Knight's Tale”
Loosely following Bakhtin's lead, this paper points to the successive acts of marginalisation that have over the years led to the standard critic's production of internally consistent and coherent readings of Chaucer's “Knight's Tale”, and supplies readings of select passages from the text in an attempt to demonstrate the inherently fractured or heteroglossic nature of this text and, by implication, of all texts
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“The Knight's Tale”
Loosely following Bakhtin's lead, this paper points to the successive acts of marginalisation that have over the years led to the standard critic's production of internally consistent and coherent readings of Chaucer's “Knight's Tale”, and supplies readings of select passages from the text in an attempt to demonstrate the inherently fractured or heteroglossic nature of this text and, by implication, of all texts
Teaching a theory‐based English syllabus
A speculation on the nature of texts
This essay briefly rehearses the argument for thinking of texts as culture‐bound phenomena which exist only in the value‐laden act of reading. It discriminates between the material world and the knowable world, and situates writing in the first and text‐production in the second. It suggests limits to the relativity of text‐production in terms of the limited cultural contexts in which it takes place. On the basis of these ideas it goes on to consi…
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