Slightly Foxed > An Index to Slightly Foxed > Flanery, Patrick Denman:

Flanery, Patrick Denman:

Patrick Denman Flanery is an Honorary Fellow in the School of English, University of Sheffield.

The numbers in square brackets refer to the issue of the quarterly in which the article appears.
The unbracketed numbers refer to the starting page of the article.
For entries in multiple issues of the quarterly, the occurrences are separated by semi-colons.

articles by, [7] 32; [9] 77; [25] 60

Browse articles

20050901171138

Cowboys, ‘Hottentots’ and the Vietcong

Patrick Denman Flanery on J. M. Coetzee, Dusklands

Though J. M. Coetzee is now internationally fêted as South Africa’s second Nobel Laureate in Literature, his early novels remain largely ignored. His first, Dusklands, is especially worth rediscovering. Drawing a keenly observed connecting line backwards through history, it links the American war in Vietnam with the European land grab at the southern tip of Africa in the eighteenth century.
20060301170313

Race of Ghosts

Patrick Denman Flanery on Evelyn Waugh, Put Out More Flags

Preoccupied with the ‘Phoney War’, from declaration to the fall of France, or what Waugh described as the ‘Great Bore War’, Put Out More Flags was his sixth novel, and although it was a great success on first publication in 1942, it seems to be one of his few novels that people don’t know today. Waugh readers tend to fall into two camps, usually on either side of Brideshead Revisited (1945), with some reading only the ‘mature’ books, others sticking fiercely to the early comedies. Put Out More Flags is perhaps under-loved because it falls, both chronologically and stylistically, between these two recognizable periods in Waugh’s fiction.
20100301115852 Patrick Denman Flanery, Geoffrey Gorer - Slightly Foxed Issue 25

Two Men in a Pontiac

Patrick Denman Flanery on Geoffrey Gorer, Africa Dances

Anyone who has given the British Museum’s Sainsbury Gallery of African Art anything more than a very brief visit (in and out to gawk at the Benin bronzes) will surely have admired the extent to which the curators have attempted, through a series of short films on loop, to show how some of the artefacts on display have been used – and the lives they continue, in many cases, to lead in West and Central Africa in particular. Viewers can learn about pottery, bronze casting, the rivalries between asafo banner-bearing Fante youth companies in Ghana and, most memorably for me, about the extraordinary masquerades performed by secret societies.

Buy related issues of Slightly Foxed