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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, 2005-10-28)Angela Carter (1940-1992) positions herself as a writer in ‘the demythologising business’ (1983b:38). She defines myth in ‘a sort of conventional sense; also in the sense that Roland Barthes uses it in Mythologies’ (in ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2007-11-23)Please read the abstract in the 00front part of this document
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(University of Pretoria, 2003)This study explores reasons for Enid Blyton’s vast popularity. Blyton and her life are discussed in terms of the production and reception of her texts in the light of changing dominant discourses in society and varying ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2006-06-17)The realm of fantasy literature has always been that of the 'invisible', in as much as it has either been 'excluded' from traditional academic circles or at most marginalised from the general body of literary texts and ...
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(University of Pretoria, 1999)This thesis sets out to provide what is perceived as the nature of Islam and background that inform the interpretation of the two novels ofMariama Ba as well as that of selected works by fellow Muslim writer, N awal ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2013-01-08)"The emergence of English as an international language in a number of domains has implications which are becoming a matter of widespread discussion among both linguists and the general public. In the face of the increasing ...
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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, 2020)This study investigates a thus far neglected aspect of Olive Schreiner’s feminism, namely her subversion of Victorian gender models in her early novels, Undine and The Story of an African Farm. In order to determine what ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2007-11-12)This feminist analysis addresses Lindsey Collen’s intertextual use of myth in The Rape of Sita and how her reformation of the parodied texts becomes a resistance to patriarchy. Collen’s examination of possible counteractions ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2007-02-16)Please read the abstract in the 00front part of this document
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(University of Pretoria, 2012-10-15)Prior to the 1960s and 1970s most studies of time undertaken in the West treated it as an objective phenomenon, devoid of ideological inscriptions. Second Wave feminists challenged this view, arguing that time is not neutral ...
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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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(University of Pretoria, 2020-10)This dissertation considers Philip K. Dick’s dystopian vision by discussing the dystopian elements that are present in three of his novels – Martian Time-Slip, The Penultimate Truth, and A Scanner Darkly. Dick is universally ...
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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, 2010)Enid Blyton and Agatha Christie were the most successful British women writers of their time. Christie and Blyton were contemporaries, living and writing in the United Kingdom during the first half of the twentieth century. ...
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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, 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, 2017)The aim of this dissertation is to critically examine the representation of female madness in The Bell Jar, by Sylvia Plath, Wide Sargasso Sea, by Jean Rhys, and Surfacing, by Margaret Atwood, with a particular emphasis ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2008-09-05)This research emerges from an observation that Douglas Adams’s Hitch Hiker Series is not merely characterised by light-hearted comedy, but is underpinned by intricate philosophical ideas, especially those of twentieth ...
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