Browsing English by Subject "Satire"

Browsing English by Subject "Satire"

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  • Douglas Adams : analysing the absurd 
    Van der Colff, Margaretha Aletta (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 ...
  • Reading and roaming the racial city : R.R.R. Dhlomo and The Bantu World 
    Sandwith, Corinne (Institute for the Study of English in Africa, 2018)
    Scholarship on the literary inscription of urban space in early twentieth-century South Africa has tended to focus on Sophiatown and the writers of the 1950s ‘Drum generation’. In this reading, the idea of Johannesburg as ...
  • The small-town novel in South African English literature (1910-1948) 
    Snyman, Magrieta Salome (University of Pretoria, 2010-10-06)
    This study aims to examine a group of South African novels that have received very little critical attention. Part of the problem is that these works have never been grouped or assessed as belonging to a sub-genre, the ...
  • Terry Pratchett and the Johnny Maxwell Trilogy : death, war and laughter 
    Joubert, Michelle Anne (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 ...
  • Well-seasoned talks : the newspaper column and the satirical mode in South African letters 
    Sandwith, Corinne (Routledge, 2019)
    In this article, I examine the popular satirical column “R. Roamer Esq.” written by R.R.R. Dhlomo which appeared in The Bantu World newspaper. The study seeks to reassemble the archive of African intellectual and political ...