Inspects the aesthetics, literary forms, and language that characterized the changing attitudes of American and British imaginative writers toward society, looking at Romantic, Utilitarian, Edwardian and contemporary traditions

Product Description: Using his own and others’ memories, professor Shaun Viljoen, a former colleague of Richard Rive’s, brings the noted South African writer, scholar, and literary critic to life with sensitivity and empathy. This biography follows Rive from the 1950s, when he was writing for Drum magazine and spending time in the company of antiestablishment writers such as Jack Cope, Ingrid Jonker, Es’kia Mphahlele, and Nadine Gordimer, to his acceptance to Magdalene College at Oxford, where he completed his doctorate on Olive Schreiner, and his return to South Africa to resume his position as senior lecturer at Hewat College of Education...read more

Product Description: This very handy reference work on all aspects of Bosman’s life and work consists of short, informative, alphabetically arranged entries. Entries on his life (childhood, studies, the murder of his step-brother, prison, family, lovers, wives, friends, work associates, etc...read more

Product Description: A New York Times Notable Book of the Year "Moving, funny... Here is a man looking back on his life and country with joy and sorrow."―John Freeman, The Boston GlobeThe most acclaimed South African writer of his generation, Zakes Mda eight novels venture far beyond the conventional narratives of a people's struggle against apartheid...read more

Although Bosman wrote no formal life history, this collection of his writing contains all the autobiographical pieces he wished to become know, from his Cape childhood and his Johannesburg education as a teacher, through to his career as a freelance journalist and more.

Inspects the aesthetics, literary forms, and language that characterized the changing attitudes of American and British imaginative writers toward society, looking at Romantic, Utilitarian, Edwardian and contemporary traditions