oa Litnet Akademies : 'n Joernaal vir die Geesteswetenskappe, Natuurwetenskappe, Regte en Godsdienswetenskappe - Akademiese diskoers en die skep van 'n akademiese ruimte as voedingsbodem in Marius Crous se digbundel Vol draadwerk : geesteswetenskappe

Abstract

Die meeste resensies oor Marius Crous se bundel Vol draadwerk wys op die duidelike teenwoordigheid van 'n akademiese diskoers. Die doel van hierdie artikel is om deur middel van enkele teksontledings te probeer aantoon hoe die teenwoordigheid van 'n akademiese diskoers die bundel verryk. Konvensionele literêre teorieë, asook teorieë van toegepaste linguistiek vorm die grondslag van die navorsing. Eerstens val die fokus op sogenaamde kenmerke van akademiese taal. Vervolgens word aandag geskenk aan metadiskoers en die konstruksie van 'n akademiese skryweridentiteit, die skryf vir 'n bepaalde teikengehoor en enkele aspekte van argumentkonstruksie, soos die grootte en die aard van die denksprong. Daar word aangetoon dat hoewel die gedigte eerstens binne die poëtiese genre val, Crous se werk ook sterk by tekste vanuit die akademiesediskoersgemeenskap aansluit.

Academic discourse and the creation of an academic space as substrate in Vol draadwerk ("Full of fads and fancies"), a volume of poetry by Marius Crous

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The volume of poetry Vol draadwerk by Marius Crous has an overt tenor of gay sexuality which no review of the work fails to mention. In spite of being aware of the predominantly sexual themes in the work as a whole, many reviewers also comment on the distinctly academic style of the poet. In a volume of poetry where vivid descriptions of (gay) sexual deeds and fantasies occur in most poems, there is a natural possibility that the importance of this aspect of single poems and of the volume as a whole might be overestimated. The purpose of this article is to argue for a broader interpretation of the work in general and to highlight a layer of meaning that is informed by the presence of typical characteristics of academic discourse. In order to find evidence for this hypothesis, a close reading of several poems will be undertaken to indicate the different ways in which academic discourse is used by the poet to charge poems with additional meaning. In many poems poetic meaning is enhanced by blending different genres and worlds that are represented metonymically by formal, academic discourse and also by more subtle indicators of academic writing conventions. Furthermore, the interesting intertextual relationships and the hybrid character of many poems, which are conveyed by mixing different registers, genres and texts, will be examined.