Browsing Theses and Dissertations (English) by Supervisor "Goedhals, Antony"

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A description and analysis of the dystopian vision of Philip K. Dick, with reference to selected texts

De Wet, Liesl (University of Pretoria, 2020-10)

This dissertation considers Philip K. Dick’s dystopian vision by discussing the dystopian elements that are present in three of his novels – Martian Time-Slip, The Penultimate Truth, and A Scanner Darkly. Dick is universally ...
H. P. Lovecraft's monsters of modernity read through J. J. Cohen's 'Seven Monster Theses'

Olivier, Cuan (University of Pretoria, 2022)

This dissertation offers a unified application of Jeffrey Jerome Cohen’s ‘Seven Monster Theses’ (first introduced in Cohen’s 1996 Monster Theory: Reading Culture), and Howard Phillips Lovecraft’s (1890-1937) Supernatural ...
Products of dystopia : Philip K. Dick’s reflections on uncomfortable social realities in three novels

Visagie, Jeandre (University of Pretoria, 2022)

This dissertation explores ways in which a selection of Philip K. Dick’s novels express the idea of products produced in a dystopian setting and how these products reflect uncomfortable social realities. The first novel ...

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