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    • Autobiographical techniques and the problems of memorial reconstruction: Amis, Coetzee, Kermode and Motion 

      Meihuizen, Nicholas (Taylor & Francis, 2013)
      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 ...
    • Beckett and Coetzee: alternative identities 

      Meihuizen, Nicholas Clive Titherley (AOSIS, 2011)
      Beckett en Coetzee: alternatiewe identiteite Coetzee se vakkundige belangstelling in Beckett en sy estetiese belangstelling in hom (wat geredelik erken word as 'n sterk invloed), loop uiteen in Coetzee se onlangse kort ...
    • Pauline Smith's Formalism in The Beadle 

      Meihuizen, Nicholas (Taylor & Francis, 2017)
      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 ...
    • The poet, the philosopher and the birds: narrative, self and repetition in Richard Murphy 

      Meihuizen, Nicholas Clive Titherley (Routledge, 2011)
      This article draws on Richard Murphy's memoirs, The Kick (2002. London: Granta) and his poem 'Wittgenstein and the birds', from his Collected poems 1952-2000 (2001. Winston-Salem: Wake Forest University Press, p. 6) to try ...
    • Saying and the interruption of the said: ethical considerations in and on J.M. Coetzee's The Lives of Animals 

      Vandenbussche, Liselotte; Meihuizen, Nicholas (Taylor & Francis, 2017)
      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 ...
    • Yeats's manuscripts and authorial intention. 

      Meihuizen, Nicholas (Taylor & Francis, 2014)
      The undermining of authorial intention through intertextuality and its consequent implications can sometimes lead to false assumptions about, not simply the meaning of texts, but the strategies used by authors in conveying ...
    • Yeats, Vendler, and Byzantium 

      Meihuizen, Nicholas (Edinburgh University Press, 2014)
      Helen Vendler, in her magisterial Our Secret Discipline: Yeats and Lyric Form (2007), provides us with the tools with which to register the traditional formal elements of poetry, and she does so for the most part with her ...
    • Yeats’s manuscripts and authorial intention. 

      Meihuizen, Nicholas (Taylor & Francis, 2014)
      The undermining of authorial intention through intertextuality and its consequent implications can sometimes lead to false assumptions about, not simply the meaning of texts, but the strategies used by authors in conveying ...