Colette Gordon
Biographic Data
| ID | 5921570 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Colette Gordon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Colette |
| FAMILY NAME | Gordon |
| SIGNATURE | GORDON C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the Witwatersrand |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7483-3529 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Reading literature in/against the digital age
Following the popular theme of Nicholas Carr’s The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains (2010), various commentators observe the erosion of what used to be called ‘reading’, but is now increasingly referred to as ‘deep’ reading. University English departments offer ‘close reading’ of literary texts as a corrective to the digital shallows, while worrying about a general decline in reading, and reading ‘for pleasure’, attributed to th…
Midsummer Night Stream
Open and Closed
The force of ‘Shakespeare’ as a source of cultural authority in South Africa has been extensively discussed. This chapter looks at a phenomenon that is less often acknowledged: the persistence of directorial power in post-apartheid Shakespearean performance. Renewed ties with British theatre after apartheid brought actors and directors trained in a more actor-centred approach into dialogue with local theatre practitioners, but this did little to …
African Theatre 12
Renaissance Syntax and Subjectivity
Coinage and State Formation in Early Modern English Literature
Stephen S. Deng. Coinage and State Formation in Early Modern English Literature. Early Modern Cultural Studies 1500–1700. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. xvi + 268 pp. index. illus. bibl. $85. ISBN: 978–0–230–11023–6. - Volume 64 Issue 4
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Renaissance Syntax and Subjectivity
Coinage and State Formation in Early Modern English Literature
Stephen S. Deng. Coinage and State Formation in Early Modern English Literature. Early Modern Cultural Studies 1500–1700. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. xvi + 268 pp. index. illus. bibl. $85. ISBN: 978–0–230–11023–6. - Volume 64 Issue 4
African Theatre 12
Open and Closed
The force of ‘Shakespeare’ as a source of cultural authority in South Africa has been extensively discussed. This chapter looks at a phenomenon that is less often acknowledged: the persistence of directorial power in post-apartheid Shakespearean performance. Renewed ties with British theatre after apartheid brought actors and directors trained in a more actor-centred approach into dialogue with local theatre practitioners, but this did little to …
Midsummer Night Stream
Reading literature in/against the digital age
Following the popular theme of Nicholas Carr’s The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains (2010), various commentators observe the erosion of what used to be called ‘reading’, but is now increasingly referred to as ‘deep’ reading. University English departments offer ‘close reading’ of literary texts as a corrective to the digital shallows, while worrying about a general decline in reading, and reading ‘for pleasure’, attributed to th…
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