Transitional Identity: Autobiography in South Africa

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface VII
3. Contents IX
4. SECTION I: LITERATURE AND CULTURE IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLAND
5. Introduction 3
6. Eighteenth-Century Culture: Questions of Textuality 7
7. Popular Political Culture in the Mid 1790s 15
8. Hogarth’s ‘Industry and Idleness’: Representing the Criminal 29
9. A Woman Under the Influence. Women, Crime and Punishment in 18th-Century England 31
10. To Make Sense of the Senseless The Representation of Crime and Punishment in Eighteenth-Century England 45
11. Pamphlets in the Seven Years’ War: More Change Than Continuity ? 59
12. “The wilderness pleases” - But why not in the novel? 73
13. Conflicting Definitions of the Culture of Sensibility 93
14. City Vice: New Urban Myths in Eighteenth-Century England 105
15. SECTION II: FUNCTIONAL GRAMMAR
16. Introduction 119
17. The Function of Role Types in Unmarked Theme- Rheme Structures 121
18. Supplementive Adjective Clauses in English 133
19. Functional Grammar and the Analysis of English 135
20. A Functional Approach to Modality 149
21. Systemic Functional Linguistics - A Chomsky-Theory or a Mead-Theory? 169
22. Theme in translation: some considerations 193
23. Functional-Semantic Fields 211
24. SECTION III: SOCIETY, GENRE, AND LANGUAGE IN MEDIEVAL ENGLAND
25. Introduction 227
26. Genres, Texts and Corpora in the Study of Medieval English 229
27. William Caxton’s Dialogues in French and English as a Source of Information about Social Reality 243
28. Dream Theory and Dream Lexis in the Middle Ages 245
29. Chaucer’s Prose in the Canterbury Tales as Parody 259
30. Morphological Reclassification: The Morphological and Morphophonemic Restructuring of the Weak Verbs in Old and Middle English 273
31. Bishops’ Courts as Cultural Centres: The Case of the Harley Lyrics 285
32. Wycliffite Sermons: A Critical Commentary on Late 14th-Century England 297
33. The Late Middle English Paston Letters 313
34. SECTION IV: SOUTH AFRICA
35. Introduction 327
36. South African Literary History - The Black and the White Perspective 333
37. Literature for a National Culture in South Africa: Perspectives of Oppressed Groups 343
38. From Vasco da Gama’s Astrolabe to John Barrow’s Artificial Horizon: The Cape Colony and Cartographical Momentum 361
39. Transitional Identity: Autobiography in South Africa 369
40. Cultural Politics in Es’kia Mphahlele’s Works 381
41. Literature and Civil Society in South Africa 391
42. Spatial Symbolism in Nadine Gordimer’s None to Accompany Me 407
43. English - The Language of a New Nation The Present-Day Linguistic Situation of South Africa 419
44. SECTION V: VARIA
45. Workshop: Teaching Utopian Fiction - A Contribution to Cultural Studies 437
46. Subjective Theories of Second Language Acquisition 453
47. A Text-Based Approach to the Study of English Punctuation 465
48. English Literature in Germany - German Literature in England: An Analysis of a Lopsided Bicultural Exchange 481
49. Food in English Literature 483
50. Being True to the Story: Myth, Identity, and Art in Momaday’s The Ancient Child 501