English III
ENGLISH III LECTURE AND TUTORIAL TIMETABLE 2013
African Literature
Realism and the English Novel
Writing Post-Apartheid
We know Bugger-all about Baboons
American Literature
Early Modern Literature
Electives
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Here Karlien (right) and Hope (left) are pictured
with their winning entries behind them and with
their lecturer in the Department of English,
Dr Sam Naidu, who is also a member of the
Language Committee and the organiser of
the Poetry and Short Story competitions.
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The Department of English presents
Jamie McGregor
9 May 2013
17h15
The Department of English Common Room
All WelcomeOne-man Opera: The Making of
"Wagner reading Wagner"
The idea of celebrating the bicentennial anniversary of the birth of Richard Wagner, which occurs on 22 May 2013, by impersonating the composer himself and
recreating one of his public readings of the text of his operatic creations, is an exercise fraught with danger. There are, on the one hand, the familiar objections to what
the man stood for, which would seem to place him beyond the limits of the acceptably praiseworthy, and there are, on the other, the practical difficulties of offering for
public consumption text that without its accompanying music is widely thought of as little more than overwrought and histrionic bombast.
This talk aims to assuage these doubts and to encourage advance interest in the upcoming impersonation, by telling the story of its development – both as an
educational tool and as an unlikely piece of entertainment, opera on a shoestring budget. -
The Department of English and
MA in Creative Writing/ISEA present
Jean McNeil
Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing, University of East Anglia, UK
Mellon Foundation Visiting Scholar, University of the Western Cape, 2013Wild Places – Imaginative Writing
and the Environment25 April 2013
17h15
The Department of English Common Room
All WelcomeSupported by the Mellon Foundation
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Kathleen Samson, Michael Hathorn and
Armand Swart
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Armand Swart
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Research Seminar: 19 March 2013, Department of English
English Honours Seminar Room
17h15
All welcome
Writing revolution, failing, changing gear: the manuscript revisions of Waiting for the Barbarians
Prof David Attwell
Biography: Prof Attwell is Chair of Modern Literature, Head of the Department of English and Related Literature at the Univeristy of York. He is currently on a two-year Leverhulme Research Fellowship in order to write a critical biography of J. M. Coetzee, focussing on the genesis of the major novels.
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English Department Research Seminar
14 March 2013
17h15
The Department of English Common Room
All Welcome
Merlin in the North:
History and Prophecy in Medieval Scandinavia
Sometime between 1123 and 1139, in Oxford, a man named Geoffrey of Monmouth
finished an historical work of dubious veracity known as the 'Historia regum Britanniae'
(the 'History of the Kings of Britain'). So popular was the work that some 217
manuscripts containing it have been listed, with about a third of those dating from before
the end of the 12th century. The book was translated into a wide array of languages,
including German, Italian, French, Welsh, and Old Norse. It was a medieval bestseller,
and the foundation upon which almost all subsequent Arthurian material is based.
Embedded in the larger work was a section called the 'Prophetiae Merlini' (the
'Prophecies of Merlin').
This presentation describes and analyses the interface between Old Norse vernacular
literature and Latin historiography. It also examines the variant approaches to history and
fiction that these two traditions maintain. In doing so the presentation illuminates some
of the more interesting facets of Old Norse literature, and also some of the problems
raised by medieval translation theory.
