Browsing Research Publications (English Studies) by Author "Barnard, Rita"
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Reopening Agaat: Afrikaans, Encyclopedic Narrative, World Literature
Barnard, Rita (Routledger, 2021)This essay offers a meditation on Marlene van Niekerk’s 2004 novel Agaat as an encyclopedic (or, more exactly, a counter-encyclopedic) narrative, as defined–controversially–by Edward Mendelson in an influential 1976 polemic. ...