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Elective South African Crime Fiction

Devil's peak by Deon Meyer
ISBN: 9780340822661
Daddy's girl by Margie Orford
ISBN: 1868423263
Coldsleep Lullaby by Andrew Brown
ISBN: 1770071059
Publication Date: 2005-01-01
Lost ground : a novel by Michiel Heyns
ISBN: 9781868424160

Form and Ideology in Crime Fiction by Stephen Thomas Knight
ISBN: 0333288769
Publication Date: 1980-11-05
Crime Fiction, 1800-2000 by Stephen Thomas Knight
ISBN: 0333791797
Publication Date: 2004-01-17
The Cambridge Companion to Crime Fiction by Martin Priestman (Editor)
ISBN: 0521008719
Publication Date: 2003-11-06
Detecting the Nation by Caroline Reitz
ISBN: 978081425135
Publication Date: 2004-09-15
Detective Fiction by Charles J. Rzepka
ISBN: 9780745629414
Publication Date: 2005-09-30

Paper 1: Early Modern Literature (2015)

The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser; Thomas P. Roche (Editor); C. Patrick O'Donnell (Editor); Jr Roche (Editor); Edmund Spenser
ISBN: 0140422072
Publication Date: 1979-01-25
Recounts the quests of certain knights as they struggled to achieve specific virtues, including stories that involve dragons, witches, and enchanted mirrors, in a work that was dedicated to Elizabeth I.
John Milton's Selected Poems by John Milton; John Leonard (Contribution by); Christopher Ricks (Editor)
ISBN: 9780140424416
Publication Date: 2007-12-18
The poems of John Milton (1608-74) have inspired readers for generations and the selection in this new edition spans his entire career, from his earliest works to the magnificent epics of his later life. The devotional 'On the Morning of Christ's Nativity', his first great poem, anticipates the probing religious questions of Paradise Lost. Works such as 'L'Allegro' and 'Il Penseroso' consider divisions of loyalties, while 'A Masque' ('Comus') explores Milton's great theme of temptation, and the pastoral elegy 'Lycidas' contemplates mortality and the meaning of human life. This volume includes considerable selections from Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained - Milton's late epics on the Fall of Man and Christ's temptation in the wilderness - and the complete Samson Agonistes, in which the great hero undergoes a profound crisis of faith in his final hours
King Lear by R. A. Foakes (Editor); William Shakespeare
ISBN: 9781903436592
Publication Date: 1997-05-09
Introduction (151 p.) includes historical background of the play's text and presentations.
Richard III by Gillian Day (Editor)
ISBN: 1903436125
Publication Date: 2001-11-19

Paper 2: Encountering African Literature (2015)

A grain of wheat by Ngugi wa Thiong
ISBN: 9780141186993
Originally published in 1967, Ngugi's third novel is his best known and most ambitious work. A Grain of Wheat portrays several characters in a village whose intertwined lives are transformed by the 1952-1960 Emergency in Kenya. As the action follows the village's arrangements for Uhuru (independence) Day, this is a novel of stories within stories, a narrative interwoven with myth as well as allusions to real-life leaders of the nationalist struggle, including Jomo Kenyatta. At the centre of it all is the reticent Mugo, the village's chosen hero and a man haunted by a terrible secret. As events unfold, compromises are forced, friendships are betrayed and loves are tested.
So long a letter by Mariama Ba
ISBN: 9780435913526
A bestselling title in Heinemann's long-established 'African Writers Series', this novel is now being published with a new introduction as part of the new series 'African Writers Series Classics'.
Purple Hibiscus by Adichie, C N
ISBN: 0007189885
This is a book about the promise of freedom; about the blurred lines between childhood and adulthood; between love and hatred, between the old gods and the new.
Beloved by Toni Morrison
ISBN: 9780099760115
It is the mid-1800s. At Sweet Home in Kentucky, an era is ending as slavery comes under attack from the abolitionists. The worlds of Halle and Paul D. are to be destroyed in a cataclysm of torment and agony. The world of Sethe, however, is to turn from one of love to one of violence and death - the death of Sethe's baby daughter Beloved, whose name is the single word on the tombstone, who died at her mother's hands, and who will return to claim retribution.
Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih
ISBN: 9780141187204
Publication Date: 2003-01-01
The story of a man undone by a culture that in part created him, Season of Migration to the North is a powerful and evocative examination of colonization in two vastly different worlds.

Paper 3: Realism and the English Novel (2015)

The French Lieutenant's Woman by Fowles, John
ISBN: 0099478331
Not only is it the epic love story of two people of insight and imagination seeking escape from the cant and tyranny of their age, The French Lieutenant's Woman is also a brilliantly sustained allegory of the decline of the twentieth ...
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens; Margaret Cardwell (Editor); Kate Flint (Introduction by)
ISBN: 0192829262
Publication Date: 1994-03-03
Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy; Norman Page
ISBN: 9780393972788
Publication Date: 1999-01-17
Robinson Cruso by Daniel Defoe; James Kelly (As told to); Thomas Keymer
ISBN: 9780199553976
Publication Date: 2009-04-15
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne; Ian Campbell Ross (Editor)
ISBN: 9780199532896
Publication Date: 2009-12-13
This revised edition of Sterne's great comic novel retains the first edition text incorporating Sterne's later changes, and adds two original Hogarth illustrations and a wealth of contextualizing information.
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen; Claire Lamont; James Kinsley (Editor); Margaret Anne Doody
ISBN: 9780199535576
Publication Date: 2008-06-15

Paper 4: South African Post-Apartheid Writing (2015)

Coconut by Kopano Matlwa
ISBN: 9781770093362
Publication Date: 2008-04-01
The Silent Minaret by Ishtiyaq Shukri
ISBN: 9781770092495
Publication Date: 2007-04-01
Thirteen Cents by K. Sello Duiker
ISBN: 9780864863577
Publication Date: 2011-09-15
An extraordinary and unsparing account of the coming of age of a young street child named Azure trying to make ends meet in the shadow side of Cape Town - a place of dislocation and uncertainty, desperation with glimpses of happiness.
Welcome to Our Hillbrow by Phaswane Mpe
ISBN: 9780869809952
Publication Date: 2001-11-01
A beautifully written book challenging so many traditional expectations of fictions— the way a reader expects a story to be narrated, narrative time, voice, etc. The book deals with post-apartheid South African life ( AIDS, poverty, crime) in a South African way
What Kind of Child by Ken Barris
ISBN: 9780795702334
Publication Date: 2006-01-01
Playing in the light by Zoe Wicomb
ISBN: 1415200017

Seminar Electives: Animals and animality in literature: Prof Dan Wylie (2015)

Animal Geographies by Jennifer R. Wolch; Jody Emel (Editor)
ISBN: 1859841376
Publication Date: 1998-09-01
A highly topical survey of human's treatment of animals. Each year billions of animals are poisoned, dissected, displaced, killed for consumption, or held in captivity to be discarded as soon as their utility to humans has waned. The animal world has never been under greater peril. A broad-ranging collection of essays, Animal Geographies contributes to a much-needed, fundamental rethinking about our relation to animals. Animal Geographies explores the diverse ways in which animals shape the formation of human identity, looking, for example, at the racialization and gendering of animal images. From questions of identity and subjectivity, it moves to consideration of the places where people and animals confront the realities of coexistence on an everyday basis. It then examines the ways in which animals figure in the ongoing globalization of production and mass consumption, and finally, takes up legal and ethical approaches to human-animal relations. Animal Geographies compels a profound rethinking of the history of our relations with animals and offers a series of proposals for reconstituting this relationship on a progressive basis.
Animal Liberation by Peter Singer
ISBN: 0380017822
Publication Date: 1977-01-01
This is a revised edition of the book that gave rise to the Animal Liberation Movement. This book puts forward a new conception of the relationship that ought to exist between human beings and non-human
The Animals Reader by Linda Kalof (Editor); Amy Fitzgerald (Editor)
ISBN: 9781845204709
Publication Date: 2007-03-15
As the first book of its kind, The Animals Reader provides a framework for understanding the current state of the multidisciplinary field of animal studies.
Other Nations by Tom Regan (Editor); Andrew Linzey (Editor)
ISBN: 9781602582378
Publication Date: 2010-10-01
While the editors believe the time is ripe for radical change in the way human beings see and treat animals, this collection nonetheless presents various and contrary viewpoints, leaving readers to come to their own moral conclusions.
What I Don't Know about Animals by Jenny Diski
ISBN: 9780300176841
Publication Date: 2011-09-20
Explores the complex relationship between humans and animals by examining philosophical, scientific, and literary material.

Seminar Electives: American Fiction: Prof Gareth Cornwell (2015)

Prof Gareth Cornwell

Jesus' Son by Denis Johnson
ISBN: 9780312428747
Publication Date: 2009-02-17
Rock springs by Richard Ford
ISBN: 9780747585251
Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
ISBN: 9780571230082
From the Orange Prize winning author of HomeAcclaimed on publication as a contemporary classic, Housekeeping is the story of Ruth and Lucille, orphansgrowing up in the small desolate town of Fingerbone in the vast northwest of America.Abandoned by a succession of relatives, the sisters find themselves in the care of Sylvie, the remote and enigmatic sister of their dead mother. Steeped in imagery of the bleak wintry landscape around them, the sisters' struggle towards adulthood is powerfully portrayed in a novel about loss, loneliness and transience.'I love and have lived with this book . . . it holds a unique and quiet place among the masterpieces of 20th century American fiction.' Paul Bailey'I found myself reading slowly, than more slowly--this is not a novel to be hurried through, for every sentence is a delight.' Doris Lessing
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
ISBN: 9780679728757
Publication Date: 1992-05-05
An epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expansion, Blood Meridianbrilliantly subverts the conventions of the Western novel and the mythology of the "wild west.
Tomato Red by Daniel Woodrell; Megan Abbott (Foreword by)
ISBN: 9781935415060
Publication Date: 2010-08-17

Seminar Electives: Film and Postcoloniality : Sue Marais (2015)

Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes [videorecording] by ein film von Werner Herzog.

Seminar Electives: Is chick lit chic? Re-reading Romance in Contemporary Women's Fiction : Lynda Gichanda Spencer (2015)

The Madams by Zukiswa Wanner
ISBN: 9781770070585
Publication Date: 2006-01-01

Seminar Electives: J.M. Coetzee and the Autobiographical Other: Prof Dirk Klopper (2015)

Boyhood by J.M. Coetzee
ISBN: 0436204487
Coetzee has been reluctant to talk about himself. Now, revisiting the South Africa of a half century ago, he writes about his childhood and his own interior life. Boyhood's young narrator grew up in a new development north of Cape Town, tormented by guilt and fear. With a father he did not respect, and a mother he both adored and resented, he led a double life - at school the brilliant and well-behaved student, at home the princely despot, always terrified of losing his mother's love. His first encounters with literature, the awakenings of sexual desire, and a growing awareness of apartheid left him with baffling questions; and only in his love of the veld ("farms are places of freedom, of life") could he find a sense of belonging. Bold and telling, this masterly evocation of a young boy's life is the book Coetzee's many admirers have been waiting for, but never could have expected.
Diary of a bad year by J.M. Coetzee
ISBN: 9781846551208
Front Cover
J. M. Coetzee
Harvill Secker, 2007 - Authors - 231 pages
36 Reviews
An utterly contemporary and deeply thought-provoking novel which addresses the profound unease of countless people in modern democracies around the world.

An eminent, seventy-two-year-old Australian writer is invited to contribute to a book entitled Strong Opinions. It is a chance to air some urgent concerns. He writes short essays on the origins of the state, on Machiavelli, on anarchism, on Al-Qaida, on intelligent design, on music. What, he asks, is the origin of the state and the nature of the relationship between citizen and state? How should the citizen of a modern democracy react to the state’s willingness to set aside moral considerations and civil liberties in its war on terror, a war that includes the use of torture? How does the state handle outsiders?

In the laundry-room of his apartment block he encounters an alluring young woman. When he discovers she is between jobs he claims failing eyesight and offers her work typing up his manuscript. Anya has no interest in politics but the job provides a distraction, as does the writer’s evident and not unwelcome attraction toward her.
Her boyfriend, Alan, an investment consultant who understands the world in harsh neo-liberal economic terms, has reservations about his trophy girlfriend spending time with this 1960s throwback. Taking a lively interest in his affairs, Alan begins to formulate a plan.

Diary of a Bad Yearis an utterly contemporary work of fiction from one of our greatest writers and deepest thinkers. It addresses the profound unease of countless people in democracies across the world.
Summertime by J.M. Coetzee
ISBN: 9781846553189
A young biographer is working on a book about the late writer, John Coetzee. He plans to focus on the years 1972-1977 when Coetzee, in his thirties, was sharing a rundown cottage in the suburbs of Cape Town with his widowed father. Summertime completes the majestic trilogy of fictionalised memoir begun with Boyhood and Youth.
Youth by J.M. Coetzee
ISBN: 0436205823

Seminar Electives: Joseph Conrad : Prof Gareth Cornwell (2015)

The Nigger of the 'Narcissus' and Other Stories by Joseph Conrad; J. H. Stape (Editor); Gail Fraser (Introduction by); Allan H. Simmons (Editor)
ISBN: 9780141441702
Publication Date: 2007-12-18
The volume includes: 'Youth'; 'The Secret Sharer'; 'The Lagoon'; 'An Outpost of Progress'; 'Il Conde'; 'The Duel'.
Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad; J. H. Stape (Notes by, Editor, Contribution by); Allan H. Simmons (Editor, Introduction by)
ISBN: 9780141441610
Publication Date: 2007-11-27
A young Englishman branded as a coward seeks personal redemption for an act of selfishness.
The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad; Bruce Harkness (Editor); S. W. Reid (Editor)
ISBN: 0521341353
Publication Date: 1990-05-25
This new edition of Conrad's compelling tale of espionage and terrorism set in Edwardian London is based on a painstaking comparison of the original manuscript of the work with its first, truncated appearance, and with all subsequent book form publications overseen by Conrad himself. The result is this new text, purged of printers' errors and editorial interventions. Included are a critical introduction, an essay on the text itself, a textual apparatus, and helpul explanatory notes.

Seminar Electives: John Milton: Paradise Lost: Prof Paul Walters (2015)

Milton by John Milton; Barbara K. Lewalski
ISBN: 9781405129282
Publication Date: 2007-08-21
One in a series of books presenting authoritative texts of the complete poetry and major prose of John Milton, this text offers readers the opportunity to experience 'Paradise Lost' in its original 1674 form.

A complete concordance to the poetical works of Milton
Book digitized by Google from the library of Oxford University and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.

Seminar Electives: Modern British Fantasy, 1916–1977 : Jamie McGregor (2015)

Gormenghast by Peake, M
ISBN: 9780749394820
Enter the world of Gormenghast...Gormenghast is the vast crumbling castle to which the seventy-seventh Earl, Titus Groan, is Lord and heir.
The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien
ISBN: 9780261102385
An epic depicting the Great War of the Ring, a struggle between good and evil in Middle-earth.
Perelandra by CS Lewis
ISBN: 9780007157167
The second novel in Lewis's science fiction trilogy tells of Dr Ransom's voyage to the planet of Perelandra (Venus).In the second novel in C.S. Lewis's classic science fiction trilogy, Dr Ransom is called to the paradise planet of Perelandra, or Venus, which turns out to be a beautiful Eden-like world.
The Sword in the stone by TH White
ISBN: 9780007263493
But Merlyn has very particular plans for the Wart. This new edition of T.H Whitea's classic story includes a special a?Why Youa'll Love This Booka? introduction by bestselling-author, Garth Nix.

African Literature

Prof Dan Wylie

African Oral Literature by Isidore Okpewho; Isidore Okpewho
ISBN: 025320710X
Publication Date: 1992-09-22
Contexts of African Literature by Albert S. Gerard
ISBN: 905183196X
Publication Date: 1990-04-01
Oral Literature in Africa by Ruth H. Finnegan
ISBN: 0198151314
Publication Date: 1970-01-01
Power and the Praise Poem by Leroy Vail; Landeg White
ISBN: 085255088X
Publication Date: 1991-01-01

Early Modern Literature

A Complete Concordance to the poetical works of Milton. A book digitised by Google from the library of Oxford University.

Library has a number of John Milton e-Books

Early English Books Online contains digital facsimile page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700 - from the first book printed in English by William Caxton, through the age of Spenser and Shakespeare and the tumult of the English Civil War.

Eighteenth Century Collections Online

European Romantic Review

On Church Notice Board

The youth group will present Shakespeare's 'Hamlet' in the Church basement on Friday at 7pm. The congregation is invited to attend this tragedy

About.Com Shakespeare

Britannica Guide to Shakespeare

The complete works of William Shakespeare

A complete works of William Shakespeare

Life and Times of William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare's poems

William Shakespeare famous quotes and other quotes

Ten things you did not know about William Shakespeare

Edmund Spenser. "I wrote her name upon the strand"

The Library has a number of Edmund Spenser e-Books

American Literature

American Literature is a wonderful e-Book site. Check it out!

The American Novel

Browse through American Periodicals to delve more into American Literature

The American Slave Narrative and the Victorian Novel. An e-Book which investigates the shaping influence of the American slave narrative on the Victorian novel in the years between the British Abolition Act and the American Emancipation Proclamation.

American Studies Journal. The American Studies Journal is published semiannually. Each issue of the American Studies Journal is devoted to a particular theme in American Studies. Open Access Journal

Library has Cormack McCarthy DVD The Road

Early American Literature invites work treating Native American traditional expressions, colonial Ibero-American literature from North America, colonial American Francophone writings, Dutch colonial, and German American colonial literature as well as writings in English from British America and the US.

"Talking to myself". An interview with Toni Morrison

Library has Toni Morrison DVD Beloved

Encountering African Literature

Library has Ngugi wa Thiong DVD Against all odds and e-Book Penpoints, gunpoints and dreams

Library has Tsitsi Dangarembga DVD Neria

Library has Salih, al-Tayyib e-Book The Wedding of Zein

Realism and the English Novel

Library has Charles Dickens DVD Bleak House David Copperfield Hard Times Little Dorrit The Life and adventures of Nicholas Nickleby Our Mutual Friend

Library has Charles Dickens Video Cassette A Christmas Carol Great Expectations Hard Times Martin Chuzzlewit Oliver Twist Tale of Two Cities

Library has Charles Dickens Audio Book Hard Times mOliver Twist A Tale of Two Cities

Library has Charles Dickens e-Book A Tale of Two Cities and many others

Eighteenth Century Collections Online

European Romantic Review

Library has Thomas Hardy DVD Jude the Obscure The Mayor of Casterbridge Tess of the D'Urbervilles

Library has Thomas Hardy Video Cassette The Mayor of Casterbridge

Library has Thomas Hardy Audio Book Far from the madding crowd Tess of the D'Urbervilles

Library has Thomas Hardy e-Books

Library has Laurence Sterne e-Books

Library has Daniel Defoe Audio Books Moll Flanders

Library has Daniel Defoe e-Books

Library has Jane Austen DVD Emma Pride and Prejudice Sense and Sensibility

Library has Jane Austen Video Cassette Northanger Abbey Persuasian Pride and Prejudice

Library has Jane Austen Audio Book Pride and Prejudice Sense and Sensibility

Library has Jane Austen e-Books

Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net (RAVON). An International e-Journal devoted to British Nineteenth-Century Literature

South African PostApartheid Writing

Apartheid and Beyond: South African Writers and Politics of Place. An e-Book which contributes to the study of South African literature, offering readings of writers such as Coetzee, Gordimer, Fugard, Tlali, and Mda. Focusing on the relationship between place, subjectivity, and literary form, the study examines our understanding of apartheid as a geographical form of control, and of its imagined and actual transformation.

Animals and animality in literature

Animal Science and Literature

African Literature

Read great African literature in print or as an e-Book : African Writer Series

The autobiographical other in JM Coetzee

JM Coetzee and Paul Auster in New York at the NYS Writers Institute. Reading their letters

JM Coetzee give opening provocation at Worlds Literature Festival

Contemporary American Fiction

Library has Brett Easton Ellis DVD American Psycho

Imperial Gothic

Library has Bram Stoker e-Books

Library has H Rider Haggard e-Books

Library has H.G Wells DVD The Invisible Man and a number of e-Books

Library has Arthur Machen e-Book The Great God Pan

John Milton: Paradise Lost

A Complete Concordance to the poetical works of Milton. A book digitised by Google from the library of Oxford University.

Library has a number of John Milton e-Books

Project Gutenberg free e-Book

Quotes from Paradise Lost

Modern British Fantasy

Library has Mervyn Peake video cassette Gormenghast

Library has JRR Tolkien AudioBook The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings

Library has C.S. Lewis DVD Chronicles of Narnia and the e-Book Spirit of Bondage

Sleuthing the State: South African Crime & Detective Fiction

Library has e-Book Expulsion and the Nineteenth-century novel [electronic resource] : the scapegoat in English realist fiction / Michiel Heyns.

Clues. A journal of detection

Open Access e-Books and journals. AudioBooks

LibriVox. LibriVox volunteers record chapters of books in the public domain and release the audio files back onto the net. Our goal is to make all public domain books available as free audio books.

Our Favourite Books. This site holds some of the best classic books written by some of the best classic authors. All the books available for download or to read online are free. Help yourselves.

Project Gutenberg. Project Gutenberg offers over 40,000 free ebooks: choose among free epub books, free kindle books, download them or read them online. All e-books were previously published by bona fide publishers. Project Gutenberg digitized and diligently proofread them with the help of thousands of volunteers.

English 3-Short Loan items 2019

Mnenomics,Memory and the Novel

Postcolonial Narrative and the work of mourning by J.M. Coetzee, Wilson Harris, and Toni Morrison / Sam Durrant
Durrant demonstrates successfully how each of the authors and her/his fictive strategies cope with the mnemonic burden of 'being postcolonial.' Equally admirable is the ease with which Durrant combines nuanced literary analysis with bold and well-informed theoretical speculation." — R. Radhakrishnan, author of Diasporic Mediations: Between Home and Location
Multidirectional Memory by Michael Rothberg
Call Number: 940.5318072 ROT
Multidirectional Memory brings together Holocaust studies and postcolonial studies for the first time. Employing a comparative and interdisciplinary approach, the book makes a twofold argument about Holocaust memory in a global age by situating it in the unexpected context of decolonization.

Barcode:14399324
The Future of Trauma Theory by Gert Buelens (Editor); Samuel Durrant (Editor); Robert Eaglestone (Editor)
Call Number: 801.95 FUT
This collection analyses the future of 'trauma theory', a major theoretical discourse in contemporary criticism and theory. The chapters advance the current state of the field by exploring new areas, asking new questions and making new connections.

Barcode:15078549

OPEN ACCESS E-BOOKS

LibriVox. LibriVox volunteers record chapters of books in the public domain and release the audio files back onto the net. Our goal is to make all public domain books available as free audio books.

Our Favourite Books. This site holds some of the best classic books written by some of the best classic authors. All the books available for download or to read online are free. Help yourselves.