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Browsing by UP Author "Burger, Willie"
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Burger, Willie (Tydskrif vir Letterkunde Assosiasie, 2003)In a number of reviews and articles published in the 1940's Herman Charles Bosman expressed his appreciation for the Afrikaans language and for Afrikaans literature. He fiercely attacked what he described as a tendency in ...
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Burger, Willie (Afrikaanse Letterkundevereniging, 2019-06)No absract available.
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Burger, Willie (Bureau for Scholarly Journals, 2000-04)In Marlene van Niekerk's Triomf "wall paper" becomes a central metaphor for the idea that language, narratives, ideologies, religion etc. are lies, because it leads to generalisations. These generalisations deny "reality" ...
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Burger, Willie; University of Pretoria. Dept. of Afrikaans (University of Pretoria, 2011-09-19)“Critique Engagée” – Literary Criticism that can change the world? Literary Criticism After Theory. Over the last few decades postmodernist literature and criticism have rejected the idea of a white, western, male ...
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Burger, Willie (Suid Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap & Kuns, 2012-03-01)Over the last few decades postmodernist literature and criticism have rejected the idea of a white, western, male monoculture. Elements of Derridean and Foucauldian thought have penetrated to every level of literary ...
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Burger, Willie (Plus 50 Media (Pty) Ltd, 2021-06)As jy ʼn boek wil lees wat jou om die beurt laat lag en huil, jou in ongeloof jou kop laat skud, jou na jou foon laat gryp om ongeloofwaardige feite te google en te vind dit ís inderdaad so, alles terwyl jy jou naels ...
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Burger, Willie (Suid-Afrikaanse Vereniging vir Neerlandistiek, 2003)Karel Schoeman's attempt in his "autobiography" as well as in his historical works and fiction, is to create a "bulwark against time and oblivion". By narrating the past, an important contribution is made towards ...
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Burger, Willie (South African Society for General Literary Studies, 2007-03)The realisation of the effects of the so-called “linguistic turn” and different thought associated with deconstruction and postmodernism has been an important presence in Brink’s oeuvre since On the Contrary (1993). In ...
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Burger, Willie (Afrikaanse Letterkundevereniging, 2002)Two contrasting views of narratives are explored by discussing two Afrikaans novels, André Brink's Duiwelskloof (1998) and Marlene van Niekerk's Triomf (1994). On the one hand (as represented by Duiwelskloof - in accordance ...
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Burger, Willie (Plus 50 Media (Pty) Ltd, 2021-04)Anker is immers ʼn dosent in skryfkunde aan Stellenbosch waar hy lank saam met Marlene van Niekerk gewerk het en nou in haar groot skoene staan. Boonop is sy vorige werk hoog aangeskryf. Aanvanklik is dit egter moeilik ...
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Burger, Willie (Afrikaanse Letterkundevereniging, 2010)Between the threat of forgetting on the one hand and the reprobation to remember on the other, three aspects of knowledge about the past are investigated in Karel Schoeman’s Hierdie lewe (This life) with references to the ...
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Burger, Willie (Tydskrif vir Letterkunde Assosiasie, 2015)In this article the relationship between history and fiction is examined in response to the historian, Fransjohan Pretorius’s criticism of recent Afrikaans fiction about the Anglo-Boer War in Tydskrif vir Letterkunde 52.2 ...
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Burger, Willie (Plus 50 Media (Pty) Ltd, 2021)Die hoofkarakter in Francois Smith se jongste roman is ʼn dokter op ʼn plattelandse dorp. Wanneer dokter Gustav van Aardt voor een van die kunswerke in sy spreekkamer staan, dink hy: “Egte kuns is nie net mooi prentjies ...
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Burger, Willie (Plus 50 Media (Pty) Ltd, 2021-08)Op die laaste bladsy van Voorouer. Pelgrim. Berg. dink die hoofkarakter: “Dit het tyd geword dat ek die glas water vat (hoewel ek nie dink ʼn glasie water gaan dit vir jou doen nie), en die wit kers opsteek, en ...
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Burger, Willie (Tydskrif vir Letterkunde Assosiasie, 2008)The experience of the passage of time and our attempts to remember the past is central in Elsa Joubert’s Die reise van Isobelle (1995) (translated in English as Isobelle’s Journey). In this novel memory and the importance ...
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Burger, Willie (Suider-Afrikaanse Vereniging vir Neerlandistiek, 2019)No abstract available.
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Burger, Willie (Afrikaanse Letterkundevereniging, 2001-06)In Andre Brink's Devil's Valley the emphasis falls on stories. The important role that narratives play in a community to create a history and an identity for that community and for individuals in the community, is illustrated. ...
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Burger, Willie (Bureau for Scholarly Journals, 1994-04)The incredulity towards metanarratives in the postmodernist era holds serious implications for historiography. Two "historiographic meta fictional novels" (Hutcheon's term), one Flemish and one Afrikaans, are discussed in ...
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Burger, Willie (Tydskrif vir Letterkunde Assosiasie, 2015)Following his death a high number of tributes to André Brink had been published. A common denominator that ran through these tributes was the mention time and again of the life-changing effect his work had on people’s ...
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Burger, Willie (Bureau for Scholarly Journals, 1998-11)Travelling usually leads to changed perspectives. The traveller becomes aware that his/her own perspective on reality is not the only valid perspective. In this article two Afrikaans novels in which travel is of central ...
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