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(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 ...
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(Routledge, 2020)Set in 2023, Lauren Beukes’s Afterland captures the devastating effects of a global viral pandemic. About three years prior, a highly contagious virus, called the human culgoa virus (HCV), induced terminal prostate ...
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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)Houses in literature are an important signifier, and for Canadian author L.M. Montgomery, places and especially houses were deeply meaningful. This study explores the portrayal of houses and homes in a selection of L.M. ...
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(Unisa Press, 2017)In this article, the author argues that Markus Zusak and Terry Pratchett make use of metafictional strategies as well as their respective anthropomorphic figures of death to allow readers, particularly young ones, to ...
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(Routledge, 2013)The argument begins by claiming that the phrase, ‘a clear lucid stream of everywhereness,’ taken from Ben Okri’s The landscapes within, at once encapsulates the postmodern theories of complexity and relativity and evokes ...
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(Routledge, 2016-12)This article aims to examine the portrayal of African migrants and South Africa’s relationship to the African continent in post-apartheid crime fiction. Exotic settings and the figure of the stranger have featured in the ...
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(Routledge, 2013)Because masculinities and femininities are socially and culturally constructed, they often play significant roles in constructing identities and distinguishing one another. Femininities and masculinities therefore play ...
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Meaning in Small, Snyders and Pearce : an application of Lotman’s semiotics to ‘coloured’ literature (University of Pretoria, 2004)In this study, a semiotic point of view of selected literature written by ‘coloured’ writers is examined, using some of the semiotic theories of Jurij M. Lotman, one of the leading Soviet semioticians of the school of ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2012)This thesis suggests that by reading certain innovative and even metafictional works of fantasy young adult readers may gain access to a flexible yet safe narrative space in which to confront the psychosocial crises attendant ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2006-12-08)How can we speak of the action of the mind under any divisions, as of its knowledge, of its ethics, of its works, and so forth, since it melts will into perception, knowledge into act? Each becomes the other. Itself alone ...
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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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(University of Pretoria, 2018)In this thesis, I make a case for feminist methods of reading postcolonial crime fiction by using Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor’s novel, Dust, in order to investigate the gendered construction of criminality in Kenya. While Dust ...
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(Routledge, 2013)This paper situates Jane Austen’s Emma (1816) in relation to Enlightenment ideas about selfhood. It argues that the moral philosophy of two central figures from the Scottish Enlightenment, David Hume and Adam Smith, may ...
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(Routledge, 2012)Drawing on Ben Okri’s A Time for New Dreams (2011) and Wole Soyinka’s Myth, Literature and the African World ([1976]1995), this article adopts a literary aesthetics approach, explaining that mythic conjunctions are ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2017)The events of the 2015 Fees Must Fall movement generated a lively debate in the South African public sphere, one which included multiple interest groups and constituencies. The aim of this dissertation is to critically ...
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(Shakespeare Society of Southern Africa, 2017)Natural law was a two-edged sword. It bolstered authority and order and was invoked by those claiming just rebellion. Shakespeare inherited intense controversy, complicated for him as a writer for the stage by the Master ...
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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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(Unisa Press, 2011-05-06)This article will examine how contemporary South African authors are using fantasy in literature for adolescents as a site for postcolonial endeavour, with reference to Because pula means rain (2000) by Jenny Robson. ...
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(Unisa Press, 2011-04)This article will examine how contemporary South African authors are using fantasy in literature for adolescents as a site for postcolonial endeavour, with reference to Because pula means rain (2000) by Jenny Robson. ...
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