Andries Wessels
Biographic Data
| ID | 6003261 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andries Wessels |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andries |
| FAMILY NAME | Wessels |
| SIGNATURE | WESSELS A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pretoria |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9257-560X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Onsigbaar
Tydskrif vir Letterkunde is an online, peer-reviewed, accredited scholarly journal which publishes original, previously unpublished research and overview articles on theoretical, applied or comparative aspects of African literatures and cultural practices.
Compromising Genre in Agatha Christie’s South African Detective Novel, The Man in the Brown Suit
Agatha Christie is so closely associated with the genre of the “whodunit” detective novel that her work is often invoked when the genre is defined. According to Tzvetan Todorov’s influential essay, “The Typology of Fiction” (1966), the generic innovation which often characterises great literature is not appropriate in detective fiction where rigidity of form is intrinsic to the satisfaction the work provides. This is related to the moral function…
Dae (Deon Meyer)
Tydskrif vir Letterkunde is an online, peer-reviewed, accredited scholarly journal which publishes original, previously unpublished research and overview articles on theoretical, applied or comparative aspects of African literatures and cultural practices
Paris as ‘unreal city’
Michiel Heyns's sixth novel, Invisible Furies (2012) is deeply inscribed in the author's profound engagement in and knowledge of the grand modernist tradition. The article aims to illuminate and discuss this underrated novel in terms of some of its modernist attributes by relating the work conceptually to the works of great modernist writers, particularly T. S. Eliot and E. M. Forster, in order to demonstrate its impressive literary scope and den…
Intertekstualiteit en modernistiese kompleksiteit in Henriette Grové se Linda Joubert-romans
Henriette Grové debuted in 1947 as an author of popular stories in women’s magazines under the pseudonym Linda Joubert. Meulenhof se mense and Die laat lente appeared in the nineteen-fifties in Sarie Marais and were published in book form in the early nineteen-sixties. Although the author expressed her opposition to an evaluation of these popular romantic tales as part of her literary oeuvre, the two novels reveal a surprising complexity and dens…
Marlene van Niekerk se Agaat as inheemse Big House-roman
While there is no indication that Marlene van Niekerk consciously referred to the Irish literary genre of the Big House novel in her novel Agaat, there are historical parallels between South Africa and Ireland as well as similarities between Van Niekerk’s novel and the work of Irish authors such Somerville & Ross, Elizabeth Bowen, Molly Keane and William Trevor, which make it possible to employ the existing concepts and structures of this genre t…
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Marlene van Niekerk se Agaat as inheemse Big House-roman
While there is no indication that Marlene van Niekerk consciously referred to the Irish literary genre of the Big House novel in her novel Agaat, there are historical parallels between South Africa and Ireland as well as similarities between Van Niekerk’s novel and the work of Irish authors such Somerville & Ross, Elizabeth Bowen, Molly Keane and William Trevor, which make it possible to employ the existing concepts and structures of this genre t…
Compromising Genre in Agatha Christie’s South African Detective Novel, The Man in the Brown Suit
Agatha Christie is so closely associated with the genre of the “whodunit” detective novel that her work is often invoked when the genre is defined. According to Tzvetan Todorov’s influential essay, “The Typology of Fiction” (1966), the generic innovation which often characterises great literature is not appropriate in detective fiction where rigidity of form is intrinsic to the satisfaction the work provides. This is related to the moral function…
Dae (Deon Meyer)
Tydskrif vir Letterkunde is an online, peer-reviewed, accredited scholarly journal which publishes original, previously unpublished research and overview articles on theoretical, applied or comparative aspects of African literatures and cultural practices
Paris as ‘unreal city’
Michiel Heyns's sixth novel, Invisible Furies (2012) is deeply inscribed in the author's profound engagement in and knowledge of the grand modernist tradition. The article aims to illuminate and discuss this underrated novel in terms of some of its modernist attributes by relating the work conceptually to the works of great modernist writers, particularly T. S. Eliot and E. M. Forster, in order to demonstrate its impressive literary scope and den…
Intertekstualiteit en modernistiese kompleksiteit in Henriette Grové se Linda Joubert-romans
Henriette Grové debuted in 1947 as an author of popular stories in women’s magazines under the pseudonym Linda Joubert. Meulenhof se mense and Die laat lente appeared in the nineteen-fifties in Sarie Marais and were published in book form in the early nineteen-sixties. Although the author expressed her opposition to an evaluation of these popular romantic tales as part of her literary oeuvre, the two novels reveal a surprising complexity and dens…
Onsigbaar
Tydskrif vir Letterkunde is an online, peer-reviewed, accredited scholarly journal which publishes original, previously unpublished research and overview articles on theoretical, applied or comparative aspects of African literatures and cultural practices.
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