Philip van der Merwe is a senior lecturer in the School of Languages in the Subject Group: German at the North-West University (Potchefstroom Campus) in South Africa. He has published on the fiction of Hans-Ulrich Treichel and E.L. Doctorow. He teaches German literature as well as German as a foreign language. Recent publications include the chapter “The Dialectic of Life and Death in the ‘Garden Verses’ of the Karoo Desert National Botanical Garden” in the book Song of Death in Paradise: Death and Garden Narratives in Literature, Art and Film edited by Sabine Planka and Feryal Cubucku and published by Rowman & Littlefield/Lexington (ISBN: 978-1-7936-2588-5 (Hardback); ISBN: 978-1-7936-2589-2 (eBook)); the article “(Dis)continuities in Bond: A Bakhtinian Analysis of the 007 films” in Journal of Literary Studies. 34(3), https://doi.org/10.1080/02564718.2018.1507162 and the chapter „Die Romantik der ‚zweiten Kindheit‘ in Hans-Ulrich Treichels Endlich Berliner! (2011)“ in the book Berlin: Bilder einer Metropole in erzählenden Medien für Kinder und Jugendliche published by Königshausen & Neumann (ISBN: 978-3-8260-6305-3). The title of his PhD dissertation (2011) is Fictional Worlds and Focalisation in Works by Hermann Hesse and E.L. Doctorow.
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Van der Merwe, P. 2018. Die Romantik der ‚zweiten Kindheit‘ in Hans-Ulrich Treichels Endlich Berliner! (2011) (In Planka, S. ed. Berlin: Bilder einer Metropole in erzählenden Medien für Kinder und Jugendliche/Berlin: Recent Images of a Metropolis in Narrative Media for Children and Young Adults. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann.) www.koenigshausen-neumann.de ISBN 978-3-8260-6305
Van der Merwe, P & Bekker, I. 2018. (Dis)continuities in Bond: A Bakhtinian Analysis of the 007 films. Journal of Literary Studies, (34)3, September.
Van der Merwe, P. & Bekker, I. 2015. E.L. Doctorow’s fictional autobiography: World’s Fair (1985) as a carnivalesque Bildungsroman, Literator 36(2), Art. #1181, 9 pages. http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/lit. v36i2.1181
Van der Merwe, P., 2014, ‘‘Everything is autobiographical’: Hans-Ulrich Treichel’s idiolect in Lost (1999)’, Literator 35(2), Art. #1151, 9 pages. http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/lit.v35i2.1151
Van der Merwe, P. & Sepp, A. 2013. „Trugreisen“. Mögliche Welten und narrative Unzuverlässigkeit in Hans-Ulrich Treichel’s Der Papst, den ich gekannt habe (2007), Acta Germanica: German Studies in Africa (41), 129-138.
Van der Merwe, P. 2007. Hard Times as Bodie: the allegorical functionality in E.L. Doctorow’s Welcome to Hard Times (1960), Literator 28(2) Aug., 49-73.
