• Towards a new default discourse for the earth : the poetry of Chris Mann and Dan Wylie 

  Owen, Harry (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 ...
• The typewriter’s tale : re-exploring the historical figure of Henry James through fiction 

  Breytenbach, Albertus (Unisa Press, 2023)

  This article investigates the relationship between historical fiction, history, and the portrayal of the character and identity of Henry James with specific reference to The Typewriter’s Tale (2005) by Michiel Heyns. ...
• Displacement in selected novels by Bessie Head 

  Meintjies, Frank (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 ...
• The familiar and the familial : an exploration of personal, post-apartheid poetry written by women 

  De Decker, Kristin (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 ...
• The history writer’s tale : historical fiction and the depiction of identity in Michiel Heyns’s ‘the typewriter’s tale’ and ‘bodies politic’ 

  Breytenbach, Albertus (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 ...
• The master of the unsayable : an examination of Elena Ferrante's unique methods of exploring truth in her fiction 

  Taylor, Fiona (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 ...
• A critical analysis on how the application of cinematographic tools during the screenwriting process can contribute to the visualisation of post-death Christian existence in an Afrikaans film 

  Van Zyl, Chanté (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 ...
• The emotional well-being of African wives : perceiving the generalised resistance resources (GRRs) in stress management by co-wives in Lola Shoneyin's novel The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives 

  Ndiyah, Yvumbom Florence (Routledge, 2021)

  Although it is oppressive to women, polygamy is still relevant in many contemporary African societies, where the culturally acceptable identity of a woman is as a wife and mother, as demonstrated in Lola Shoneyin’s The ...
• The animist ethic in Zakes Mda's The Heart of Redness 

  Coleman, Dylan (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 ...
• The emotional well-being of the polygynous women in Lola Shoneyin’s novel 'The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives' 

  Ndiyah, Yvumbom Florence (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 ...
• Resources as part of the narrative in biography. A study of the extent to which letters contribute to the narrative in biography, with reference to JC Kannemeyer’s biography Leroux : ’n Lewe and Charles Bukowski by Barry Miles 

  Van Aardt, Peet Petrus (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 ...
• Kavalier tot Verraaier, Zombie tot Legoman : mites en die ideologiese uitbeelding van die held in geselekteerde rolprente en dramareekse oor die Anglo-Boereoorlog 

  Jansen van Vuuren, Anna-Marie (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 ...
• The PhD in Creative Writing and the teaching thereof at South African universities 

  Pieterse, Henning Jonathan, 1960- (Routledge, 2015-11)

  The need for and feasibility of a PhD degree in CreativeWriting is discussed. The structure and content of PhDs in this field in the UK, USA and Australia are examined. The focus then shifts towards the content and ...
• Navorsing : van boere-paradjis na die dirt box in die middestad : ekokritiek en in die besonder stedelike ekokritiek as lens vir die lees van 12 gedigte oor Johannesburg se tuiste / Kreatiewe werk: Elke oomblik 

  Coetzee, Corné Elizabeth (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 ...
• Navorsing : dominees en die dood in enkele tekste van Karel Schoeman. 'n Ritueel-liturgiese verkenning / Kreatiewe werk : bergwind 

  Wepener, Cas (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 ...
• Steampunk : 'n Beskrywende studie en analise van die neerslag van die begrip op die teks Clint Eastwood van Wyk en die Moordenaarsklok 

  Verwey, Pieter (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 ...
• “[Om] nou hier op oordeelsdag bontbokke te kom tel ”1 – Wopko Jensma en die sensuurwetgewing van die jare sewentig 

  Kleyn, Leti; Marais, Johannes Lodewyk (Suider-Afrikaanse Vereniging vir Neerlandistiek, 2009)

  In July 1964 the list of banned publications in South Africa stood at 12 000 titles and increased rapidly thereafter. Between 1955 and 1971 thousands of titles were burned in municipal ovens. In this article the second ...
• Die “produksie van teenwoordigheid” in Marlene van Niekerk se kortverhaalbundel, Die sneeuslaper 

  Groenewald, Anneli (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 ...
• Tipering, stereotipering en destereotipering in ’n kortverhaal; ’n ontleding van die Jona-vertelling 

  Breytenbach, A.P.B. (Andries Petrus Bernardus), 1944- (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, ...
• Bokskiet, bokspring en bokjol : skuld- en vergifnisrituele in 30 nagte in Amsterdam (Etienne van Heerden) 

  Hattingh, Roela; Pieterse, Henning Jonathan, 1960- (Litnet, 2014-12)

  Skuld en vergifnis is verwikkelde konstrukte wat deur die eeue in verskillende religieuse, sosiologiese, psigologiese, wetlike en private ruimtes ontwikkel het en steeds ontwikkel. Hierdie konstrukte word gesien as deel ...

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