Nicholas Meihuizen
Biographic Data
| ID | 6597494 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nicholas Meihuizen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nicholas |
| FAMILY NAME | Meihuizen |
| SIGNATURE | MEIHUIZEN N |
| AFFILIATIONS | North-West University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1205-800X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Some Thoughts on Humour in Yeatsian Style
Yeats has a keen understanding of the ramifications attending style, and the effect of the right touch or tone in conveying certain materials. This is where his use of humour comes into play. For instance, in parodic mode, he writes of the congruence of natural and supernatural with an elegant nonchalance, at once prosaic and strange, and this paradoxical coupling generates a quirky sense of otherness, in keeping with the subject. He also uses hu…
Saying and the Interruption of the Said
Using J.M. Coetzee's The Lives of Animals (Coetzee 1999) as a basis, our article compares the straightforward ethical reading of literature as an unproblematic means for creating reader sympathy (as exemplified by the work of Martha Nussbaum), with an approach based on Emmanuel Levinas's sense of otherness. For Levinas, reading involves an awareness of otherness that does not control or circumscribe the other, but that encourages a continual unfo…
Pauline Smith’s Formalism in The Beadle
While critics over the years have paid attention to Smith’s formalism, certain authoritative voices (I think in particular of J. M. Coetzee and Nadine Gordimer) focus on ideological aspects of her writing, which minimise or overlook its quality and its own particular character. If we could appreciate that Smith was writing within a modernist sphere of influence— however much filtered by her own sense of her specific abilities (and her compulsion …
Autobiographical techniques and the problems of memorial reconstruction
This article examines the various ways Martin Amis, J.M. Coetzee, Frank Kermode and Andrew Motion approach the problems associated with memorial reconstruction and veracity in their autobiographical writings. Using as a starting point James Olney's notion of the “free conceptual construction” involved in our general way of making sense of the world, the article goes on to consider the means employed by these writers to negotiate with “the archive…
Huckleberry days
Yeats and the Drama of Sacred Space
In recent years Yeats scholarship has been, to a large extent, historically-based in emphasis. Much has been gained from this emphasis, if we consider the refinement of critical awareness resulting from a better understanding of the intricate relationship between the poet and his times. However, the present author feels that an exclusive adherence to this approach impacts negatively on our ability to appreciate and understand Yeatsian creativity …
Milk for amnesia and other local distillations
(1998). Milk for amnesia and other local distillations. Scrutiny2: Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 63-70
Pauline Smith’s Formalism in The Beadle
While critics over the years have paid attention to Smith’s formalism, certain authoritative voices (I think in particular of J. M. Coetzee and Nadine Gordimer) focus on ideological aspects of her writing, which minimise or overlook its quality and its own particular character. If we could appreciate that Smith was writing within a modernist sphere of influence— however much filtered by her own sense of her specific abilities (and her compulsion …
Yeats and the Drama of Sacred Space
In recent years Yeats scholarship has been, to a large extent, historically-based in emphasis. Much has been gained from this emphasis, if we consider the refinement of critical awareness resulting from a better understanding of the intricate relationship between the poet and his times. However, the present author feels that an exclusive adherence to this approach impacts negatively on our ability to appreciate and understand Yeatsian creativity …
Milk for amnesia and other local distillations
(1998). Milk for amnesia and other local distillations. Scrutiny2: Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 63-70
Huckleberry days
Autobiographical techniques and the problems of memorial reconstruction
This article examines the various ways Martin Amis, J.M. Coetzee, Frank Kermode and Andrew Motion approach the problems associated with memorial reconstruction and veracity in their autobiographical writings. Using as a starting point James Olney's notion of the “free conceptual construction” involved in our general way of making sense of the world, the article goes on to consider the means employed by these writers to negotiate with “the archive…
Saying and the Interruption of the Said
Using J.M. Coetzee's The Lives of Animals (Coetzee 1999) as a basis, our article compares the straightforward ethical reading of literature as an unproblematic means for creating reader sympathy (as exemplified by the work of Martha Nussbaum), with an approach based on Emmanuel Levinas's sense of otherness. For Levinas, reading involves an awareness of otherness that does not control or circumscribe the other, but that encourages a continual unfo…
Pauline Smith’s Formalism in The Beadle
While critics over the years have paid attention to Smith’s formalism, certain authoritative voices (I think in particular of J. M. Coetzee and Nadine Gordimer) focus on ideological aspects of her writing, which minimise or overlook its quality and its own particular character. If we could appreciate that Smith was writing within a modernist sphere of influence— however much filtered by her own sense of her specific abilities (and her compulsion …
Some Thoughts on Humour in Yeatsian Style
Yeats has a keen understanding of the ramifications attending style, and the effect of the right touch or tone in conveying certain materials. This is where his use of humour comes into play. For instance, in parodic mode, he writes of the congruence of natural and supernatural with an elegant nonchalance, at once prosaic and strange, and this paradoxical coupling generates a quirky sense of otherness, in keeping with the subject. He also uses hu…
Philosophy (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Art (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Irish and British Studies (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works)