Browsing Faculty of Humanities by Author "10093656 - Van Schalkwyk, Phillippus Lodewikus"
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'Against extremity': Eben Venter's Horrelpoot (2006) and the quest for tolerance
Van Schalkwyk, Phillippus Lodewikus (Routledge, 2009)Eben Venter's (2006) novel Horrelpoot (Clubfoot) responds to the various forms of degeneration in present-day South Africa, taking it to the extreme and, indeed, right to the deepest heart of fear. Horrelpoot is, ultimately, ... -
Homo sacer: Uitsondering en relasie in Eben Venter se Santa Gamka (2009)
Van Schalkwyk, Phil (Afrikaanse Letterkundevereniging, 2011)Drawing on Giorgio Agamben's views on homo sacer, it is argued in this article that Eben Venter's novel Santa Gamka (2009) could be read as an exploration of the state of sovereign exception - when the law is temporarily ... -
An interruptive gesture: J.M. Coetzee's Landscape with Rowers (2004)
Van Schalkwyk, Phillippus Lodewikus (Maney publishing, 2012)In Landscape with Rowers: Poetry From the Netherlands, J. M. has collected his own translations of poetic cycles and sequences by six poets: Gerrit Achterberg, Sybren Polet, Hugo Claus, Cees Nooteboom, Hans Faverey, and ... -
"Men in the middest": Ingrid Winterbach se Die boek van toeval en toeverlaat en Frank Kermode
Van Schalkwyk, Phillippus Lodewikus (Afrikaanse Letterkundevereniging, 2009)Both Ingrid Winterbach's most recent novel Die boek van toeval en toeverlaat (The Book of Happenstance, Human & Rousseau) and Frank Kermode's still relevant theoretical work The Sense of an Ending (1967), grapple, from ... -
n Herevaluering van Eben Venter se Wolf, wolf binne die konteks van sy oeuvre
Van Schalkwyk, Phil (Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns, 2017)Generally well-received in Afrikaans and South African literary criticism and far from completely undervalued in terms of literary prizes, the work of Afrikaans author Eben Venter is, however, in need of reappraisal. Some ... -
'Never one thing. Always one thing and another': 'n inleidende poëtikale vergelyking van Ivan Vladislavic en Etienne Leroux
Van Schalkwyk, Phil (AOSIS, 2012)As a language student at Wits in the 1970s, Ivan Vladislavić’s main subjects were English and Afrikaans. His interest in Afrikaans literature has since been expressed in interviews during which he acknowledged the ... -
"[O]p die groter doek van menslike inspanninge" : 'n eudaimoniese perspektief op die werke van Marlene van Niekerk met spesifieke fokus op Die sneeuslaper
Linde, Janien; Van Schalkwyk, Phil (Afrikaanse Letterkundevereniging (ALV), 2016)Friendship is important in Marlene van Niekerk's Die sneeuslaper, not only thematically, but also textually. The text converses with the reader both in relational (Silverman, 2009) and eudaimonic terms (Pawelski & Moores, ...