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(Routledge, 2025)Girls in South African young adult (YA) fiction typically represent a heteropatriarchal, sexually passive model of femininity that allows for neither sexual autonomy nor sexual desire. This article examines six prominent ...
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(Routledge, 2025)When Ted Hughes’ Birthday Letters was published in 1998, only months before the poet’s death, the volume came as such a surprise that it made headlines in both England and America. To readers hungry for biographical ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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. ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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