A gift of stones

A collection of eleven short stories, grouped under the tit A Gift Stones. The key thematic concern is the portrayal of dysfunctional individuals contemplating loss. The author offers a definition of his understanding of dysfunctional in the introduction, and further elaborates on the concept of documentary realism. The author proposes the expression “Boer humour†as shorthand for a stylistic drift in recent South African fiction. The deficiencies of journalism apropos prose fiction are discussed, and the author also considers the influence of photography on his prose fiction.

Grantor dc:publisher.institution

Department of English Language and Literature

Year dc:date.issued

2005

Author dc:creator

• O'Toole, Sean W

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/11427/13934

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/13934