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(University of Pretoria, 2021)The dissertation component of this Master’s degree explores the animist ethic in Zakes Mda’s The Heart of Redness; more specifically it will examine how an animist cosmology underlies many of the ethical values in the text ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022)Abstract The visualisation of the post-death existence in South African films has grown over the past few years, proving that the South African screen can be a haunted place. In contrast, the romantic comedy genre has ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2011-10-24)This study is comprised of two parts: an unauthorised biography of the South African musician David Kramer, as well as a reflective look at the process of writing this biography. In this regard the following aspects were ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2013)In die Afrikaanse letterkunde speel voëls by verskeie digters ’n belangrike rol – as simbole of metafore, of bloot as onderwerp in tradisionele natuurgedigte. Ook in die oeuvre van D.J. Opperman, een van die grootste ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2014)Die geesteswetenskappe, en spesifiek letterkunde en literatuurstudies, loop toenemend deur onder kritiek oor die relevansie van letterkunde in die 21ste eeu. Die letterkundige Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht reken egter dat die ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2024-05-30)The poetry collection A Place to Night In features themes of place, home and belonging. The author uses his own experiences as a springboard for a wider engagement on displacement, diverse landscapes, attachment to place ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2020)Set against the backdrop of the “Anglophone crisis” ravaging parts of Cameroon, my novel, The Things We Don’t Talk About, centres on two young women who, through monogamous and polygamous marriages as well as extra-marital ...
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The familiar and the familial : an exploration of personal, post-apartheid poetry written by women (University of Pretoria, 2023-12-10)This dissertation explores the multivocality and multiplicity of post-apartheid, personal poetry written by South African women. By analysing selected personal poetry by Malika Ndlovu, Finuala Dowling, Koleka Putuma, Michèle ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022-12)This study investigates the relationship between historical fiction, history, and the portrayal of the identity of historical figures with specific reference to two novels by Michiel Heyns, namely: The Typewriter’s Tale ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2015)Does the hero make history or does history make the hero? This question, which N.P. van Wyk Louw posed in his 1962 radio drama, Die Held, is of utmost importance to this thesis. In Van Kavalier tot Verraaier Zombie tot ...
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Laatvat (University of Pretoria, 2011)Die “photopoem”, with specific reference to the collection Notas uit die empire In order to define the phenomenon of photopoetry, the practical experiences of the author in the production of the collection Notas uit ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2023)The Master of the Unsayable is an examination of Elena Ferrante's use of realism as an authorial technique, and of what 'truth' means and has the potential to mean in a work of fiction. This is done via an investigation ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2015)Die kernvraag wat in die mini-verhandeling verken word, is hoe dominees in hulle hantering van die dood in enkele kreatiewe werke van Karel Schoeman uitgebeeld word en baie spesifiek hoe persone in die amp in die Protestantse ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2015)Die ekokritiek is ‟n relatief nuwe veld in die literatuurstudie, maar met groter bewussyn van die ál dringender omgewingskrisis het akademici sedert die 1990‟s meer aandag daaraan begin gee. Kort ná die vestiging van ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2016)The primary research question in my study is "[t]o what extent resources such as letters contribute to the narrative in biography?. With reference to JC Kannemeyer's biography Leroux: 'n Lewe and Charles Bukowski by Barry ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2015)Steampunk is ʼn nuwe sub-genre van wetenskapsfiksie wat sy oorsprong in 1987 gekry het toe skrywer KW Jeter die term vir die eerste keer gebruik het. Vandaar het Steampunk as ʼn subkultuur ontwikkel in ʼn magdom manifestasies ...
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Tipering, stereotipering en destereotipering in ’n kortverhaal; ’n ontleding van die Jona-vertelling (University of Pretoria, 2014)In hierdie navorsingsessay word die rol wat tipering, stereotipering en destereotipering speel in „n kortverhaal, nagegaan aan die hand van die Jona-vertelling. Ná ‟n kort bespreking word ‟n werksdefinisie van tipering, ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2023-08)The poetry collection To the foothills is in four parts, each representing an element of what my thesis terms the corporate world’s ‘default discourse’: Investment, Profit, Loss and Dividend. Although there is some inevitable ...
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