Abstract In examining aspects of identity in "The Pickup" (2001), Nadine Gordimer's latest novel this article indicates new trends in post-apartheid South African English literature as well. In the article it is indicated that identity has always...
Abstract Gossip is one of the wide range of sub-categories of discourse genres in story-telling. It is one of the most common interactive forms of discourse in informal conversation, because it has its origin in the general inclination of man to...
Abstract John Caputo's interest in the human struggle towards healing/wholing is obvious in his contribution on the work of Foucault: "On not knowing who we are: Madness, hermeneutics, and the night of truth in Foucault" (Caputo, 1993:233-262)....
Abstract Long before the National Party institutionalised apartheid in 1948, individuals and organisations tried to highlight the injustices of the colonial capitalist system in South Africa, but, as Lodge (1983:6) puts it, "it all ended in speeches"....
Abstract This article addresses two major issues in education today: the generation and processing of knowledge and the crucial role of the humanities, literature in particular, in the development of students with individual world views and unique...
Abstract In this article the argument is put forward that although the criterial force in narrative texts is the fact that these texts are intrinsically narrative, there is a range of extra-narrative components which should also be taken into consideration...