• 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 ...
• “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 ...
• 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 ...
• Thuma mina : debates about South African literature in English and implications for high school curricula 

  Maungedzo, Robert Ndanduleni (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 ...
• In an other world : representations of the other in queer African speculative short stories 

  Shaw, Micaela Jade (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 ...
• Landscapes of violence, galleries of crime : gender violence in selected post-apartheid crime novels written by women 

  Madziyauswa, Tafirenyika (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 ...
• Queer spaces, the body, and the text in Frank O’Hara’s lunch poems 

  Muller, Johanine (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 ...
• Border thinking as literary imaginations : rereading decolonial entanglements in fiction by Bessie Head, Tsitsi Dangarembga and Kopano Matlwa 

  Ncube, Ndumiso (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 ...
• Haunting and Queerness in Selected Post-2000s African Short Fiction 

  Gaspar, Kegan (University of Pretoria, 2022)

  This dissertation discusses post-2000s queer African short fiction in the context of haunting.
• The Agency of the Servant : Reframing Domestic Service in Contemporary South African Popular Forms 

  Ndweni, Angela Naomi (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. ...
• Products of dystopia : Philip K. Dick’s reflections on uncomfortable social realities in three novels 

  Visagie, Jeandre (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 ...
• H. P. Lovecraft's monsters of modernity read through J. J. Cohen's 'Seven Monster Theses' 

  Olivier, Cuan (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 ...
• Using Plain Language for effective interdisciplinary science communication 

  Van Staden, Antoinique (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 ...
• Toward a metafictional aesthetic in the Netflix television series, You : ambiguity, genre and spectatorship 

  Oosthuizen, Jenine (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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