Heilna du Plooy
List of John Benjamins publications for which Heilna du Plooy plays a role.
Articles
2011 Words, like shells, are signs as well as things Semblance and Signification, Michelucci, Pascal, Olga Fischer and Christina Ljungberg (eds.), pp. 327–342 | Article
South African (Afrikaans) novelist Ingrid Winterbach is known for her individual style, the originality of voice in her novels, as well as for an unusual and ironic perspective on reality. This article focuses on Winterbach’s ability to integrate word choices and narrative technique so that… read more
2010 Taking a line for a walk: Poetic contour drawings and contoured poems Signergy, Conradie, C. Jac, Ronél Johl, Marthinus Beukes, Olga Fischer and Christina Ljungberg (eds.), pp. 157–178 | Article
In this article various aspects of iconicity in three poems by the Afrikaans poet T.T. Cloete are analysed and discussed. In the poems the poet uses words to describe a line which “draws” the outline of an object. This technique is interpreted as a referred form of referentiality which transfers… read more