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Theses and Dissertations (English): Recent submissions
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(University of Pretoria, 2023)The beginning of the demise of apartheid in 1990 with the release of Nelson Mandela and the formal end of apartheid with the first democratic elections in 1994 were conceived by some to spell the death of South African ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2023)This dissertation examines the manner in which queer African speculative fiction short stories navigate the other – that which is perceived as not belonging, or being outside of what is considered ―normal‖ – and how this ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022)This thesis aims to interrogate the ways in which gender violence is portrayed in selected crime novels written by South African women writers. This thesis contends that the fictional texts written by South African female ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022)This dissertation explores how queer spaces are created in Frank O’Hara’s Lunch Poems (1964). It investigates the definition of queer spaces and how these spaces can be created in literature. It uses the history of queer ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022)The thesis Border thinking as literary imaginations: Rereading decolonial entanglements in fiction by Bessie Head, Tsitsi Dangarembga and Kopano Matlwa is inspired by the contemporary decolonial debates and draws both from ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022)This dissertation discusses post-2000s queer African short fiction in the context of haunting.
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The Agency of the Servant : Reframing Domestic Service in Contemporary South African Popular Forms (University of Pretoria, 2022)Representations of domestic workers and their relationships with employers occur in several fictional/non-fictional post-apartheid narratives in South Africa, including chick-lit, self-help literature and television series. ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022)This dissertation explores ways in which a selection of Philip K. Dick’s novels express the idea of products produced in a dystopian setting and how these products reflect uncomfortable social realities. The first novel ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022)This dissertation offers a unified application of Jeffrey Jerome Cohen’s ‘Seven Monster Theses’ (first introduced in Cohen’s 1996 Monster Theory: Reading Culture), and Howard Phillips Lovecraft’s (1890-1937) Supernatural ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022-08)Globalization, rapid technological advances and complex problems require scientists to cross-collaborate to solve problems, and to compete for funding in an interdisciplinary arena. This involves communication across ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022)My research study provides a critical analysis of the Netflix series You (2018) and seeks to provide an answer as to why the show and its protagonist engenders paradoxical interpretations that alternate between two ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022)This thesis explores representations of intercorporeality in a selection of Virginia Woolf’s fiction and non-fiction, in conversation with Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s writings on phenomenology and ontology. This study offers ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022)This dissertation examines the different gender performances, complicities, and complacencies demonstrated by three versions of the character Aunt Lydia: first, the Aunt Lydia of the novel version of The Handmaid’s Tale; ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2019)This thesis critiques the representations, and lacunas in representation, of teenage girls’ sexual desires in a selection of young adult (YA) novels written since the turn of the millenium, considering their contributions ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2017)Houses in literature are an important signifier, and for Canadian author L.M. Montgomery, places and especially houses were deeply meaningful. This study explores the portrayal of houses and homes in a selection of L.M. ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2016)Repellents play a key role in preventing mosquito-borne diseases such as malaria by reducing human-vector contact. The general mechanism of action relies on providing a repelling vapour around the applied area on the ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2019)Of all human identity categories such as race, religion, culture, class and gender that a person might belong to, race and gender are arguably two of the most contentious in the world. This study takes gender as its main ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2021)This study explores, through detailed analysis, the many and varied depictions of mothering, in a broad sense, in Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women series, published between 1868 and 1886, and in Lucy Maud Montgomery’s Anne ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2021)This thesis is concerned with T.S. Eliot’s exploration and depiction of art in his Four Quartets. Central to this investigation is the logos/flux paradigm, which is established by the two quotations from Herakleitos, a 6th ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2021)By examining critically poems in which Sylvia Plath’s speakers appear as daughters, wives, and mothers, this study situates Plath as an artist operating within Romantic and Modernist traditions of exemplary suffering. The ...
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