Editorial note.

1. Review Section

The editors of JLS have decided to replace the review section with a review essay section and announcements of new books, thereby achieving two objectives. Firstly, we hope to provide authors with the opportunity of developing their comments into comprehensive critiques of particular topics or fields of study. Secondly, we aim at rendering a service to our readers by reporting on the latest publications pertaining to literary theory.

We envisage review essays in which one or more books on a specific subject will be discussed and which will, by implication, preferably constitute a reappraisal of some aspect of literary theory. Review essays should be the same length as articles to qualify as "overview articles" which, contrary to "ordinary" reviews can be considered for subsidy in terms of categories specified by the Department of National Education. Should review essays be accepted for publication in an accredited journal, they will qualify for subsidy after being subjected to the same selection process valid for all articles submitted to JLS.

We invite contributions to the review essay section. If you need further information, please contact either the editors or the review editor. We hope to create a forum for debate and discussion on issues of a literary-theoretical nature and which have bearing on the present and future of literary studies in South Africa.

2. Special Issues: General Guidelines 

The editors wish to encourage initiatives and proposals for future special issues of JLS. While the journal has, as its specific focus, research within literary theory, this discipline continues to make connections with a variety of other disciplines, practices and sites of intellectual interest. Broadly, literary theory occupies a central position within current research into forms of human knowledge, the technologies of culture and meaning, and the relation between language and power. The range of topics and problems which could be located within these fields of inquiry is enormous. Moreover, as South African universities and their academic departments undergo accelerated change, new pedagogical imperatives and possibilities require scholarly attention.

JLS may act as a forum for a range of positions and interests which intersects with the concerns of literary theory, methodology and criticism. Furthermore, it is anticipated that special issues may attract topical and focused debate in response to the papers presented, in subsequent issues of the journal.

3. Special Issues: Topics

The editors of JLS call for contribution to the following proposed special issue:

3.1 New Research on J.M. Coetzee

Papers are invited for a proposed special issue of JLS centred on "New Research on J.M. Coetzee" within any of the following areas:

* new approaches, theoretical or interpretive, about specific novels or about Coetzee's eevre as a whole

* investigations of aspects of Coetzee's writing which in your opinion have not yet been sufficiently addressed

* critical responses to existing readings of the work

* theoretical innovations or proposals based on the writing

* responses to new or recent publications on the writing, for example Derek Attridge's J.M. Coetzee and the Ethics of Reading: Literature in the Event or the special edition of Interventions on Disgrace.

The due date for submissions is set at 31 March 2005. Enquiries, proposals and/or papers should be addressed to Ms M. de Jong, Afrikaans & Theory of Literature, UNISA, P.O. Box 392, Pretoria, 0003. Telephone: [phone]; fax: [phone]; e-mail:<[e-mail]>.

Redaksionele nota.

1. Resensie-afdeling

Die redaksie van TLW het besluit om die resensie-afdeling te verander om voorsiening te maak vir afdelings oor sowel resensie-artikels as die aankondiging van nuwe boeke. Ons hoop om twee doelwitte met hierdie verandering te bereik. In die eerste plek sou ons outeurs graag die geleentheid wou bied om hulle kommentaar te ontwikkel tot uitgebreide kritieke van spesifieke onderwerpe of studieterreine. In die tweede plek sou ons 'n diens aan lesers wou lewer deur verslag te doen van resente literer-teoretiese publikasies.

Ons stel resensie-artikels in die vooruitsig waarin die bespreking van een of meer resente boeke oor 'n spesifieke onderwerp, verkieslik 'n hertaksering van een of ander literer-teoretiese aspek, sal impliseer. Die lengte van dergelike resensie-artikels moet ooreenstem met die lengte van artikels ten einde te kan kwalifiseer as "oorsigartikels" wat, anders as wat die geval is met "gewone" resensies, oorweegbaar is vir subsidie in ooreenstemming met die kategoriee war deur die Departement van Nasionale Opvoeding gespesifiseer is. Aangesien resensie-artikels wat in geakkrediteerde tydskrifte geplaas word in aanmerking kom vir subsidie, sal dergelike bydraes ook onderhewig wees aan dieselfde keuringsproses wat geld vir enige artikel wat aan die tydskrifvir publikasie voorgele word.

Ons nooi medewerkers uit om resensie-artikels voor te le. Indien u verdere inligting verlang, kontak asseblief die redakteurs of die resensie-redakteur. Ons hoop om 'n debatsforum te skep vir die bespreking van vraagstukke van 'n literer-teoretiese aard, wat ook betrekking het op die huidige en toekomstige aard van literatuurstudie in Suid-Afrika.

2. Spesiale uitgawes: Algemene riglyne

Die redaksie wil graag inisiatiewe en voorstelle vir toekomstige spesiale uitgawes van TLW aanmoedig. Die tydskrif het wel navorsing binne die literere teorie as spesifieke fokus, dog dit her ook raakpunte met 'n verskeidenheid ander dissiplines, praktyke en terreine van algemene belang. In die bree gesien, beklee literere teorie 'n sentrale plek ten opsigte van die huidige bestel rakende fasette van mensekennis, die tegnologiee van kultuur en betekenis, en die relasie tussen taal en magsoorwig. Moontlikhede vir die bespreking van onderwerpe en probleme aangaande die onderhawige terreine is legio. Aangesien Suid-Afrikaanse universiteite en hulle akademiese departemente huidiglik teen 'n versnelde pas veranderinge ondergaan, noop die nuwe pedagogiese imperatiewe en moontlikhede kundige bemoeienis.

Die TLW kan derhalwe as 'n forum dien vir standpunte en spitspunte wat die belange van literere teorie, metodologie en kritiek by mekaar kan uitbring. Spesiale uitgawes word in die vooruitsig gestel wat, in antwoord op die gepubliseerde artikels, aktuele en doelgerigte debat sal uitlok wat in die daaropvolgende uitgawes van die tydskrif sal verskyn.

3. Spesiale uitgawes: Onderwerpe

Die redaksie van TLW wag bydraes in vir die volgende beplande spesiale uitgawe:

3.1 New Research on J.M. Coetzee

Artikels word ingewag vir die voorgestelde uitgawe van TLW wat sal fokus op enigeen van die volgende terreine:

* nuwe benaderings, hetsy teoreties of interpreterend, van bepaalde romans of van die oevre as geheel

* ondersoeke na aspekte van Coetzee se werk wat na u mening nog nie voldoende nagevors is nie

* kritiese reaksies op bestaande interpretasies van die werk

* vernuwende teoretiese voorstelle

* reaksie op nuwe of onlangse publikasies oor Coetzee, byvoorbeeld Derek Attridge se J.M. Coetzee and the Ethics of Reading: Literature in the Event of die spesiale uitgawe van Interventions oor Disgrace.

Die keerdatum vir inlewering is 31 Maart 2005. Navrae, voorstelle en/of referate, moet gerig word aan me. M. de Jong, Afrikaans & Algemene Literatuurwetenskap, UNISA, Posbus 392, Pretoria, 0003. Telefoon: [phone]; faks: [phone]; e-pos:<[e-mail]>.