• The relationship between the spelling and pronunciation of English in the South African context 

  Titlestad, Peter J.H. (South African Association for Language Teaching, 1999-12)

  English spelling is not phonetic. This is just as well as the variety of accents world wide would make a universal phonetic spelling system impossible. But the non-phonetic and sometimes apparently eccentric nature of ...
• Ben Okri's eco-imagination in Every Leaf a Hallelujah (2021) : an Afropolitan approach 

  Gray, Rosemary A. (Routledge, 2024)

  There are possibly myriad approaches to an examination of Sir Ben Okri’s African folktale, Every Leaf a Hallelujah (2021), that sings the praises of Mother Nature’s ability to transform human nature. Premised on the ...
• Psychology, patriarchy and a politics of men and masculinities : reading inequality in three South African texts 

  Sixam, Katlehiso (University of Pretoria, 2019)

  After the 27th of April 1994, South Africa entered an unchartered territory, turning its back on a long history of segregation and of inequalities. With the new democratic government having assumed office, many were right ...
• The South African place in fantasies of recovery and the sublime 

  Ismail, Farah (University of Pretoria, 2019)

  This thesis analyses the depiction of South African inspired places within the aesthetic of the fantastic utilizing a theoretical toolkit enabled by criticism of the marvellous fantasy subgenre. In my study, I consider the ...
• Disarming the canon : exploring Tepper’s and Atwood’s retelling of classical (her)story 

  Best, Nicole (University of Pretoria, 2019)

  This dissertation explores the ways in which two contemporary texts, Sheri S. Tepper’s (1990) The gate to Women’s Country and Margaret Atwood’s (2005) The Penelopiad, adapt classical texts by Euripides and Homer in order ...
• Unreal cities and valleys of ashes in post-Great War European and American society: a comparative examination of T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land and F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby 

  Kruger, Elmarie (University of Pretoria, 2019-09)

  Considering that F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby (1925) and T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land (1922) were released in a time that is now referred to as the Jazz Age, it can be said that these two works have various shared ...
• The presence/absence of Plain English in selected Senior Phase science material for educators 

  Fouché, Lauren Senna (University of Pretoria, 2018)

  At senior secondary and even tertiary levels, many South African science learners have a poor grasp of basic scientific concepts and processes. This is often blamed on poor teaching, as science teachers must create a ...
• "The only almost germ-free continent left" : pandemics and purity in cultural perceptions of Antarctica 

  Leane, Elizabeth; Lavery, Charne; Nash, Meredith (Duke University Press, 2023-03)

  This article examines the role of pandemics and viruses in cultural perceptions of Antarctica over the past century. In the popular imagination, Antarctica has often been framed as a place of purity, refuge, and isolation. ...
• The gender performances of Margaret Atwood's Aunt Lydia in the Testaments 

  Weiss, Jordyn Jade (Unisa Press, 2023-04)

  This article examines the different gender performances that are demonstrated by the version of the character Aunt Lydia that Margaret Atwood focuses on in her latest novel, The Testaments (2019). The research is primarily ...
• “God doing limbo” : creolised belief systems represented in selected Caribbean poems 

  Place, Sarah Ann (University of Pretoria, 2023-08-12)

  This dissertation explores the representation of Afro-Caribbean mythology, folklore, and tradition in postcolonial Caribbean poetry. In addition, this study explores how references to Afro-Caribbean folklore connect the ...
• How boys become men : examining the representation of boyhood masculinity in Hughes’s Tom Brown’s school days (1857) 

  Oram, Caryn (University of Pretoria, 2023-12-13)

  Masculinity today is a highly contested subject. In current cultural discourse, it has frequently been viewed as a deeply embedded social system that is harmful and dangerous. In this dissertation, I wish to explore the ...
• Writing in engineering : teaching higher-order writing techniques to engineering students in an extended degree programme 

  Jansen, Lauren Senna (University of Pretoria, 2023)

  This study investigates the ways in which a writing curriculum with an emphasis on higher-order skills improves student writing. This curriculum was developed for a module titled ‘Professional Orientation’, which is offered ...
• Editorial : Plunging into the depths of scholarly critique 

  Gray, Rosemary A. (Routledge, 2023)

  This issue of English Academy Review provides both contributors and readers of our internationally acclaimed journal with a rare opportunity to imagine themselves as novice deep-sea divers, not in search of a Tennysonian ...
• Academic, keyword, and plain English subtitles for natural sciences students : intralingual views 

  Kruger-Marais, Elmarie; Kruger-Roux, Helena (AOSIS, 2023-08-31)

  The study is an analysis of the reaction of students in a faculty of natural and agricultural sciences (NAS) to subtitles and also includes an investigation of their responses thereto. Reception of and responses to ...
• Complexities of the feminine voice in J. M. Coetzee’s in the heart of the country, foe, and age of iron 

  De Klerk, Anouk Christine (University of Pretoria, 2023)

  Between the years of 1976 and 1990, J. M. Coetzee’s In the Heart of the Country, Foe, and Age of Iron were published. These three novels – the subjects of this dissertation – stand out within Coetzee’s oeuvre because of ...
• Toward de-exceptionalizing migration : intra-African diasporic writing in South Africa 

  Fasselt, Rebecca (Indiana University Press, 2022-09)

  Migration has never before occupied such a prominent place in African cultural production as it does today. Yet, notwithstanding an increasing focus on intra-African migration in the social sciences, literary ...
• Sekhmet and the shaman : extinction, ferality and trans-species connections in Henrietta Rose-Innes’ Green Lion 

  Simon, Judith (Routledge, 2023)

  In her fourth novel, Green Lion (2015), Henrietta Rose-Innes depicts nature’s precariousness in a commercial-driven city. The novel focuses on how, in the Anthropocene epoch, destructive human activities such as property ...
• Religion, security and politics in northern Nigeria : a public intellectual reading of Ahmed Yerima's Pari 

  Oloruntoba, Albert Olatunde (Unisa Press, 2022)

  Nigeria boasts of some of the world's biggest worship centres, as the vast majority of its population attend religious services and pray regularly. However, this nation remains one of the most religiously divisive nations ...
• Using process-oriented, guided-inquiry learning in the teaching of academic literacy 

  De Waal, Marguerite Florence; Weder, Nandi (University of Stellenbosch, Education Faculty, Department of Curriculum Studies, 2022-08)

  This paper presents a quantitative analysis of an intervention study that used process-oriented, guided-inquiry learning (POGIL) to teach grammar as part of an academic literacy module in the Extended Curriculum Programme ...
• The (de)colonial praxis : confronting present-day dilemmas of transforming knowledges and societies in Kopano Matlwa’s Spilt milk 

  Ncube, Ndumiso (Unisa Press, 2022-09)

  Contemporary South African campus fiction has always been concerned with questions of power, being, and knowledge production. Kopano Matlwa’s novel Spilt Milk, like most campus fiction, evokes and challenges the South ...

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