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Articles/Essays

Click on the titles below for abstracts (short descriptions) of each article/essay. For full-text versions, consult the relevant publication - most academic journals are available by subscription only, or through university libraries; many of them are also online.

“Legislating sex, or, the subtle theology of All’s Well That Ends Well and Measure for Measure”

2008. Forthcoming in the Southern African Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies 17.

"Guy Butler's Political Ecology: History, Appropriation, Alienation, Belonging"

2008. Forthcoming in the Journal of Literary Studies.
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“Oprah, the Leavisite: A Caveat for Women’s Studies in South Africa”

2008. African Studies 67(1): 101-120.

“Playing the Game: Vladislavic, Aesthetics, Politics”

2007. Current Writing 19(1): 69-86.

“Lawrence, Leavis and Butler: Appropriation, Influence, Association and ‘Redemption' "

2007. In Phelps and Bell (eds), D.H. Lawrence Around the World: South African Perspectives (Echoing Green Press), pp.267-292.

"Transforming aspects of 'English Studies' in South Africa"

2007. Social Dynamics 33(1): 155-179.

“Love’s usury, poet’s debt: Borrowing and mimesis in Shakespeare’s sonnets”

2007. Literature Compass 4(3): 809-819.

“Africa, old and new: Guy Butler and ‘The African Renaissance – A long view’”

2006. The English Academy Review 23(1): 23-33. First published in Postamble 2(1).

"The Trouble with Life Writing: a New 'Cult of Personality' "

2006. Scrutiny2 11(1): 109-114.

"Sher and Doran’s Titus Andronicus: Importing Shakespeare, Exporting South Africa"

2006. Shakespeare in Southern Africa 18: 29-36.