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Titlestad, Peter J.H.
(South African Association for Language Teaching, 1999-12)
English spelling is not phonetic. This is just as well as the variety of accents world wide would make a universal phonetic spelling system impossible. But the non-phonetic and sometimes apparently eccentric nature of ...
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Krueger, Anton
(Centre for Theatre and Performance Studies,University of Stellenbosch, 2006)
No abstract available
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Stopford, Clare; Krueger, Anton
(Centre for Theatre and Performance Studies, University of Stellenbosch, 2006)
In contrast to the vast array of books which deal with the craft of acting and stagemanagement,
there seem to be far fewer books which attempt to describe what directors
do. The most common contemporary approach seems ...
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Titlestad, Peter J.H.; Sevenhuysen, Karina
(Shakespeare Society of Southern Africa, 2007)
In 1881, (or 1880 if the historian Heese is right) just at the time of the Anglo-Transvaal War, a
play was published in London called The Struggle for Freedom or, The Rebellion of Slagters
Nek, written under the pseudonym ...
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Wessels, J.A. (Andries)
(Tydskrif vir Letterkunde Assosiasie, 2007)
Deon Meyer's fifth crime novel, Infanta (2004), appears inherently South African, both as regards a clearly recognisable physical environment and as social, political and moral landscape. However, it also stands in a long ...
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Chennells, Anthony
(Historical Association of South Africa, 2007-05)
Vroeë sendelinge en reisigers wat Mzilikazi se Ndebele teëgekom het, het laasgenoemde
sonder uitsondering as meerderwaardig teenoor ander mense in die verre binneland uitgebeeld. Eers
toe hulle tussen Brittanje en ...
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Brown, Molly
(Unisa Press, 2008)
K. Sello Duiker’s The hidden star was published posthumously in 2006 and met with mixed critical reactions. In this article I argue that Duiker’s achievement in this novel has yet to be fully recognized and appreciated. ...
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Van der Colff, M.A.
(Bureau for Scholarly Journals, 2008-12)
According to twentieth-century existentialist philosophy, the universe as we know it is steeped in senselessness, and the only possible means of survival is the construction of subjective meaning. Douglas Adams's fictional ...
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Finn, Stephen Marcus
(University of South Africa Press, 2009)
Conzalo’s utopia is seen to be a chimera, something impossible to achieve, something which will be in no place, the meaning of utopia. The
opposite of this is, of course, ‘dystopia’, with
its connotation of disorder, ...
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Ismail, Farah
(Unisa Press, 2009)
Fantasy is a literary genre in which authors freely construct entire worlds to suit their own ideological purposes. These Otherworlds often have implications for identity construction that need to be considered within the ...
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Chennells, Anthony
(Routledge, 2009)
When African nationalist writers of the mid-twentieth century refer to Christianity they
almost invariably represent it as being implicated in colonialism. Writers like Beti and
Ngugi evidence this, and Ngugi in particular ...
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Brown, Molly
(2009)
It is a truism that learners in the foundation phase learn to read while those in the intermediate phase read to learn. However, this paper examines research indicating that a high percentage of learners never manage the ...
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Gray, Rosemary A.
(Routledge, 2009-05)
This article begins by pointing to the dearth of critical attention to Ben Okri’s novel, In
Arcadia ([2002] 2003. London: Phoenix). Examples of the sparse but dismissive critical reviews of this novel are given, showing ...
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Titlestad, Peter J.H.
(English Academy of Southern Africa, 2009-10)
The boundaries of ‘literature’ have always been blurred, and oratory has always lurked on the fringe. In ‘literature’ of a narrower definition, Milton’s Satan, ‘like some huge ammiral’, looms large as an imaginative creation. ...
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Medalie, David
(Institute for the Study of English in Africa, Rhodes University, 2010-10)
Alan Paton is known chiefly for his novels, biographies, autobiographies and
political writings. His short stories have received relatively little attention.
At their best, however, they are finely wrought and deeply ...
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Robertson, J.
(Bureau for Scholarly Journals, 2011)
The article identifies salient features of Van de Ruit’s novels
“Spud: a wickedly funny novel” (2005) and “Spud – the madness
continues” (2007) and compares them with the corresponding
motifs commonly found in historical ...
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Wessels, J.A. (Andries)
(Tydskrif vir Letterkunde Assosiasie, 2011)
Henriette Grové debuted in 1947 as an author of popular stories in women's magazines under the pseudonym Linda Joubert. Meulenhof se mense and Die laat lente appeared in the nineteen-fifties in Sarie Marais and were published ...
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Robson, Gina Leigh
(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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Coetzee, Liesel
(Routledge, 2011-05)
Several of the dominant discourses of the times in which Enid Blyton lived and wrote
are reflected in her writing; and this resulted in much negative criticism of her work.
However, her writing also offers evidence of ...
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Brown, Molly
(Unisa Press, 2011-05-06)
According to what physicists call the “string theory landscape”, the number of possible
universes may be infi nite. This theoretical conception of space-time stresses multiplicity
by suggesting that “whenever the universe ...