Abstract
Literator publishes research articles and essays on linguistics and literature in general, but focuses in particular on the (comparative) study of South African languages and literatures and other cultural phenomena across language, media and cultural boundaries (examples of topics would be: different manifestations of Post-Modernism, the interaction between visual arts and literature, the representation of the South African War in literature, language attitudes and language policy).
Highlights
An autumn’s equinox, the night air hot and still, a full moon, high above the rooftops, trees and streets, shapes out a chalk-pale palimpsest of mythic time: the marble columns of a temple built on rock, a rugged coast, the silence of a calm and silvered sea
Isn’t that grunting nightgown on a bed a temple clerk, totting up wages, grants and fees, the unpaid levies of a league of sea-edged states? And there, a pearl-pale murmuring still half asleep, isn’t that lithe Aspasia crafting a phrase for Pericles?
I wouldn’t be a wandering Orpheus of the internet, a fan of rhythmic Homer’s word-strung lyre, were I to hide behind a screen of slatted prose the quiet radiance of the moonlight in that room, the unseen resonance that brings to life a dream, a song
Summary
An autumn’s equinox, the night air hot and still, a full moon, high above the rooftops, trees and streets, shapes out a chalk-pale palimpsest of mythic time: the marble columns of a temple built on rock, a rugged coast, the silence of a calm and silvered sea. This is sleep’s pause, the waking hour when thoughts and dreams, as if uplifted by the swells, the pulse and heave of shoreward surging swells, glimmer a midnight city in a cove of rocks, dark out in the mind-brain’s earth-whirled sea.
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