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Salomi Louw

Bio: Salomi Louw is an academic researcher. The author has contributed to research in topics: Nothing & Diegesis. The author has an hindex of 1, co-authored 2 publications receiving 2 citations.

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TL;DR: The 77 stories of as discussed by the authors are an exemplar of absences: nothing is stable or constant, not even the clown, while all things are equally big/small: there is no unity or centre, thus the lack of presence.
Abstract: Summary Initially a difficult text, the 77 stories opens up under a deconstructivist scrutiny. This Post‐Modernist text is an exemplar of absences: nothing is stable or constant, not even the clown. Due to the self‐reference of the recit, anything or anybody can change into any other element or entity while all things are equally big/small: there is no unity or centre, thus the lack of “presence”. Hierarchical oppositions contradict each other and there is no “coherent logic”: “death” entails the continuation of “life” and “born x unborn” leads a parallel existence in the text. Through the “signature” in the text and by means of “invagination” the “parergon” becomes part of the “ergon” which admirably demonstrates “grafts” and “dissemination”. Everything in the text exists solely in the sense of transition and change, equality and transferability; thus of transformation and transmutation.

2 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, a distinction is made between physio-mimetic and psycho-, i.e., the latter dealing with the mimetic presentation of a charcter's image of a certain space, e.g. dreams.
Abstract: Summary In discussions of space in plays the terms used are usually vague and general. In this paper an attempt is being made to provide more appropriate terms, especially as pertains to descriptions of space in the radio play. Stemming from the well‐known usage of “mimetic space”, a difference is here being established between physio‐mimetic and psycho‐mimetic space; the latter dealing with the mimetic presentation of a charcter's image of a certain space, e.g. dreams. Diegetic space is also more closely defined, and divided into periods (e.g. present, historical and prospective). Further useful terms are psycho‐, socio‐ and textual diegesis. The terminology explicated in this article is equally useful for theatre, radio and television plays.

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyse the ways in which religion and sexuality are related to one another in three recent novels: (1) Fransi Phillips's Die donker god (2007), (2) Inga Žolude's Santa Biblia (2013), and (3) Michel Houellebecq's Soumission [English translation: Submission ] (2015).
Abstract: In this article, the authors propose to analyse the ways in which religion and sexuality are related to one another in three recent novels: (1) Fransi Phillips’s Die donker god (2007), (2) Inga Žolude’s Santa Biblia (2013) and (3) Michel Houellebecq’s Soumission [English translation: Submission ] (2015). In each case, the novels are briefly placed within their respective literary cultures (Afrikaans, Latvian and French) in order to offer a contextually sensitive analysis. After each of the novels has been discussed related to the three related topoi of God, sex and joy, some comparative remarks are offered in conclusion. Intradisciplinary and/or interdisciplinary implications: In this contribution, from the theological field of Spirituality Studies, the field of Comparative Literature is approached, seeking to identify aspects of Religiosity and Sexuality from the perspective of Post-Secularity.

6 citations

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26 Apr 2000
TL;DR: Vandag is dit in Afrikaans nie meer uitsonderlik om by opleiding in skeppende skryfwerk betrokke te wees nie.
Abstract: Vandag is dit in Afrikaans nie meer uitsonderlik om by opleiding in skeppende skryfwerk betrokke te wees nie. Menige skrywer, letterkundige of uitgewer is reeds op een of ander manier daarby betrokke, hetsy as student of kursusganger, of as aanbieder.

1 citations