Medalie, David(Institute for the Study of English in Africa, Rhodes University, 2010-10)
Alan Paton is known chiefly for his novels, biographies, autobiographies and
political writings. His short stories have received relatively little attention.
At their best, however, they are finely wrought and deeply ...
This paper situates Jane Austen’s Emma (1816) in relation to Enlightenment ideas
about selfhood. It argues that the moral philosophy of two central figures from
the Scottish Enlightenment, David Hume and Adam Smith, may ...
Medalie, David(Rhodes University, Institute for the Study of English in Africa, 2016-12)
A number of works of non-fiction written in the post-apartheid period reflect on childhood and adolescent experiences during the apartheid years. This paper looks at three of them: Jacob Dlamini’s Native Nostalgia (2009) ...
