Chris Thurman - Articles/Essays

Articles/Essays

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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.

"Beyond Butlerism: Revisiting Aspects of South African Literary History"

2008. English Studies in Africa 51(1): 47-64.

"'God Delay Our Rebellion!': Sexuality and Theology in All’s Well and Measure for Measure"

2008. Southern African Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies 17 (2007, delayed publication): 77-96.

“Oprah, the Leavisite: A Caveat for Women’s Studies in South Africa”

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

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

2007. Journal of Literary Studies 23(4): 390-416.
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“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.