Letterkunde en die dood : onmoontlikheid en die moontlikhede van die teks

The vantage point of this thesis is that literature, as an art form directed at life, at a portrayal of life in all its complexity, is exactly for that reason most closely concerned with death. Being specifically not a study of literature about death, but rather literature and death, it is an inquiry into the manner in which literature treasures death as a condition of its existence. The subtitle expresses the central hypothesis explicitly: The possibilities of the text are largely dependent on the text's commitment to impossibility. The assumption that underpins this formulation is that death is the utmost possibility - the impossibility! - of any cognitive endeavour.

Grantor dc:publisher.institution

Afrikaans and Netherlandic Studies

Year dc:date.issued

2007

Author dc:creator

• Smith, F A H

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Snyman, Henning

Language dc:language.iso

afr

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/11427/8079

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/8079