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Wright, Laurence
This special section of the Shakespearean International Yearbook asks a series of questions about South African Shakespeare, chapter by chapter, focusing on the twentieth century. The temporal emphasis is deliberate, because it was particularly in th
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http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1007425
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Wright, Laurence
Amid the deluge of criticism and commentary evoked by Disgrace, quite remarkably nobody has noticed that the book re-engages exactly the energies Shakespeare deployed in The Tempest, a play which has become an icon, if not the icon, of colonial and p
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http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1007217
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Wright, Laurence
The humanities in South Africa, as elsewhere, face a crisis of credibility.There is pressing need for the humanities to articulate their social and educational purpose more clearly, so that their academic value is recognised beyond the confines of ac
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http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1007213
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Wright, Laurence
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Per Linguam : A Journal of Language Learning, Vol 18, Iss 2, Pp 1-18 (2002)
Formal language planning is inevitably a top-down, highly technical process. Success for such planning would seem to depend on engaging productively with existing or readily developed social motivation within the society. This article reports on an i
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https://doaj.org/article/063235645b9f4831b253e1a7439a2106
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Wright, Laurence
There are certain stories, the world over, that stir our hearts and minds to imaginings richer and deeper than the bald facts of history can easily satisfy. Such is the legend of Thuthula, the young Xhosa girl whose beauty and grace won the heart of
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http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1007419
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Wright, Laurence
A peer-reviewed lecture delivered at Rhodes University on the occasion of the presentation to Professor Wright of the English Academy's Gold Medal, 16 November 2011. Guy Butler (1918-2001) has been gone some ten years. This lecture sets out to illumi
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http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1007460
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Wright, Laurence
Modernism tends to be criticised, internationally, as politically conservative. The objection is often valid, although the charge says little about the quality of artistic achievement involved. This article argues that the alliance between Modernism
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http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1007459
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Wright, Laurence
This article examines political dimensions of the train metaphor in selected southern African poems, some of them in English translation. Exploring work by Mongane Serote, B.W. Vilakazi, Demetrius Segooa, Phedi Tlhobolo, Thami Mseleku, Jeremy Cronin,
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http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1007453
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Wright, Laurence
My topic suggested itself in response to a point made at a seminar on University autonomy. Someone observed that many people, even shack dwellers, are interested in the cosmos and they always would be. The remark came in the course of a debate concer
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http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1007431
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Wright, Laurence
One of the teasing characteristics of novels soused in literariness, like J.M. Coetzee’s, is their tendency to leak, to bleed, into vast inchoate terrains of intertextuality.The reader is constantly challenged to measure and assess their implicatio
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http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1007428