Many students enter tertiary education unfamiliar with the ‘norms and conventions’ of
their disciplines. Research into academic literacies has shown that in order to succeed
in their studies, students are expected to ...
Wittenberg, Hermann(Taylor & Francis, co-published with Unisa Press, 2010)
In South African imaginative writing and scholarly research, there is currently an extensive
and wide-ranging interest in the ‘Bushman’, either as a tragic figure of colonial history, as
a contested site of misrepresentation, ...
Wittenberg, Hermann(University of KwaZulu Natal, 2005)
This article develops a postcolonial reading of the sublime by suggesting that aesthetic theories of the sublime were, in their classical philosophical formulations by Edmund Burke and Immanuel Kant, founded on problematic ...
In 1864, Wilhelm Bleek published a collection of Khoi narratives titled Reynard the Fox in South
Africa, or Hottentot Fables and Tales. This article critically examines this foundational event in
South African literary ...
Brown, Duncan; Krog, Antjie(Taylor and Francis Group, 2011)
Creative non-fiction has become in the sense ‘the genre’; of South African writing: writing
which makes its meanings at the unstable fault line of the literary and journalistic, the
imaginative and the reportorial. Duncan ...