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Browsing Humanities by Supervisor "Brown, Molly"
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(University of Pretoria, 2005-11-09)The female hero has been marginalized through history, to the extent that theorists, from Plato and Aristotle to those of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, state that a female hero is impossible. This thesis argues ...
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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, 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, 2007-01-09)This thesis argues that the human mind recognizes within the natural world a dimension of reality that is beyond its knowledge and understanding. Nature confronts it with an ineffable power the source of which is often ...
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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, 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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(University of Pretoria, 2005-02-10)Contemporary children’s books, particularly picture books, show an increasing tendency towards complexity and sophistication. There is, however, some resistance to this tendency in the children’s book world. This thesis ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2011-12-09)Anne Rice writes popular fiction. She is best known for her iconic Vampire Chronicles series. This thesis focuses on the first three volumes of this series: Interview with the Vampire (1976), The Vampire Lestat (1985), and ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2015)As a scholar, Tolkien spent a great deal of time working from manuscripts. Likewise, as a storyteller, in The Lord of the Rings, Tolkien creates a narrative persona who bases his story on his compilation and translation ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2006-06-17)The study explores the complex relationship between various manifestations of the self and the other in twentieth century Science Fiction (SF). According to Richard Bernstein (1983), much modem thought is still influenced ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2017)In this dissertation I explore the dynamics of how the definition of the human is established and subsequently challenged in both H.G. Wells’s The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896) and R.L. Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr ...
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Negotiating a new cultural space : aspects of fantasy in contemporary South African youth literature (University of Pretoria, 2015)Due to its subversive nature, fantasy of various kinds can be seen as opening up a liminal space within its texts. In this study it will be argued that within the postcolonial context of South Africa, this liminal space, ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2017)Douglas Adams and Jonathan Swift are satirists who lived and worked 250 years apart. Swift's eighteenth-century text, Gulliver's Travels, tells the story of an Englishman's adventures during numerous sea voyages that bring ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2007-02-28)Epic, among the earliest and most universal of genres, is found in a developed form among the most ancient written records of cultures from China to Greece, and has been recorded as oral narrative on every inhabited ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2013)The hero journey as theorised by Joseph Campbell in 1949 in The Hero With A Thousand Faces (reprinted 1993) has informed and influenced mainstream storytelling for more than half a century. In Campbell’s work, it is argued ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2015)This dissertation is an exploration of the Romance tropes that exist in J.R.R. Tolkien s The Lord of the Rings. It concentrates on the numerous Romance tropes and details evident in Tolkien s characters and setting while ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2010)This thesis investigates the function of representations of the Orient in fantasy literature for children with a focus on The Chronicles of Narnia as exemplifying its most problematic manifestation. According to Edward ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2013)The aim of this dissertation was to critically analyse Terry Pratchett’s Johnny Maxwell trilogy in terms of three areas, namely Pratchett’s use of various fantasy techniques; how comedy and satire function as distancing ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2020)Traditionally the hero of any story in the Fantasy genre has been decidedly and overwhelmingly male, with female representation being limited to that of sidekicks and damsels in distress. With the rise of the Second Wave ...
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