Reingard Nethersole
Biographic Data
| ID | 5965392 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Reingard Nethersole |
| GIVEN NAMES | Reingard |
| FAMILY NAME | Nethersole |
| SIGNATURE | NETHERSOLE R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the Witwatersrand |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0828-7619 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
McKeon on Rhetoric and Technology
On closely reading the Aristotelian-Ciceronian-Kantian-inflected essay “The Uses of Rhetoric in a Technological Age: Architectonic Productive Arts,” Richard McKeon’s 1970 Wingspread Conference address presciently sketches a new rhetoric that is no longer about the approval of an already formed opinion, the steering of public beliefs, or political influence, but rather about dealing with new problems. Showing the “art of discovery, invention and c…
Un-Speaking Manichaeism
When enmity seizes language, speech needs be silenced to give meaningful communication a chance. But current Manichean structures making life a moral battleground have to first be undone to make shared problem solving possible. It is suggested that a rhetoric of the essay is better suited to this task than the rhetoric of speech
Virginia Governor’s “Executive Order 51”
A close reading of two interrelated Executive Orders issued by the Governor of the U.S. State of Virginia exposes modern Law’s twofold paradoxes. While the first stems from perennial judicial-political disjunctive opposition between responsibility for self-preservation and collective wellbeing, the second paradox comes into view with the rise, in eighteenth-century North America, of homo oeconomicus who, newly endowed with rights has the (additio…
Language in Limbo
Forced by the COVID-19 pandemic into lockdown during intercontinental travels, the author finds herself in limbo. With help from literary precedents such as Dante, Boccaccio, and Defoe supported by a brief interrogation of contemporary utterances surrounding the master trope “virus,” she claims a chiasmic relation between the concepts “consolation” and “control.”
Reading in the in‐between
By offering a close reading and analysis of “Postscript”, the text that concludes Coetzee's collection of “lessons” in his 2003 book Elizabeth Costello, in conjunction with Hofmannsthal's 1902 “Chandos Letter” (including brief reference to the Nobel Address “He and His Man"), the essay demonstrates the implications of palimpsestuous reading. Informed by Gérard Genette's study of the palimpsest as a mode of literary presentation particularly suite…
History
(1996). History: The European myth and the time and space of the other. The European Legacy: Vol. 1, Fourth International Conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas, pp. 1392-1401
Writing space
Writing Space explores the way in which language structures space with the help of lexical, syntactical, and semantic devices. Based upon an analysis of Susan's writing lesson given to Friday in J.M. Coetzee's Foe, a spatial reading of narrative is demonstrated. This includes a brief discussion on literacy as a prerequisite for writing, the site of the activity, and the theoretical framework within which spatialisation as a critical tool for lite…
“Local is Lekker”
Based upon brief comparisons with other literatures, the article examines the current debates on South African literature, isolating four symptoms which seem to indicate national self‐assertion via the high road of literature. These are the pride taken in locally produced artefacts; an increasing “cross‐over” and mingling of different languages which make any quests for purity of language a risky business, challenging control over dominant discur…
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“Local is Lekker”
Based upon brief comparisons with other literatures, the article examines the current debates on South African literature, isolating four symptoms which seem to indicate national self‐assertion via the high road of literature. These are the pride taken in locally produced artefacts; an increasing “cross‐over” and mingling of different languages which make any quests for purity of language a risky business, challenging control over dominant discur…
Writing space
Writing Space explores the way in which language structures space with the help of lexical, syntactical, and semantic devices. Based upon an analysis of Susan's writing lesson given to Friday in J.M. Coetzee's Foe, a spatial reading of narrative is demonstrated. This includes a brief discussion on literacy as a prerequisite for writing, the site of the activity, and the theoretical framework within which spatialisation as a critical tool for lite…
History
(1996). History: The European myth and the time and space of the other. The European Legacy: Vol. 1, Fourth International Conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas, pp. 1392-1401
Reading in the in‐between
By offering a close reading and analysis of “Postscript”, the text that concludes Coetzee's collection of “lessons” in his 2003 book Elizabeth Costello, in conjunction with Hofmannsthal's 1902 “Chandos Letter” (including brief reference to the Nobel Address “He and His Man"), the essay demonstrates the implications of palimpsestuous reading. Informed by Gérard Genette's study of the palimpsest as a mode of literary presentation particularly suite…
Virginia Governor’s “Executive Order 51”
A close reading of two interrelated Executive Orders issued by the Governor of the U.S. State of Virginia exposes modern Law’s twofold paradoxes. While the first stems from perennial judicial-political disjunctive opposition between responsibility for self-preservation and collective wellbeing, the second paradox comes into view with the rise, in eighteenth-century North America, of homo oeconomicus who, newly endowed with rights has the (additio…
Language in Limbo
Forced by the COVID-19 pandemic into lockdown during intercontinental travels, the author finds herself in limbo. With help from literary precedents such as Dante, Boccaccio, and Defoe supported by a brief interrogation of contemporary utterances surrounding the master trope “virus,” she claims a chiasmic relation between the concepts “consolation” and “control.”
Un-Speaking Manichaeism
When enmity seizes language, speech needs be silenced to give meaningful communication a chance. But current Manichean structures making life a moral battleground have to first be undone to make shared problem solving possible. It is suggested that a rhetoric of the essay is better suited to this task than the rhetoric of speech
McKeon on Rhetoric and Technology
On closely reading the Aristotelian-Ciceronian-Kantian-inflected essay “The Uses of Rhetoric in a Technological Age: Architectonic Productive Arts,” Richard McKeon’s 1970 Wingspread Conference address presciently sketches a new rhetoric that is no longer about the approval of an already formed opinion, the steering of public beliefs, or political influence, but rather about dealing with new problems. Showing the “art of discovery, invention and c…
Philosophy (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Linguistics (4 works) · Art (3 works) · History (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (2 works)