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Browsing Theses and Dissertations (English) by Supervisor "Medalie, David"
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(University of Pretoria, 2012-10-15)Prior to the 1960s and 1970s most studies of time undertaken in the West treated it as an objective phenomenon, devoid of ideological inscriptions. Second Wave feminists challenged this view, arguing that time is not neutral ...
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The Elephant and Other Stories & Guilt and its repercussions : Bernard Malamud's 'The Magic Barrel' (University of Pretoria, 2020)The Elephant and Other Stories is an original collection of short stories that depict themes of unfulfilled expectations, relationships, and isolation. The stories explore the complexities of the choices people make, ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2008-11-13)This thesis examines ways in which identities have been represented in new South African play texts. It begins by exploring various ways in which identity has been described from various philosophical, psychological and ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2010)Kamala Das is one of the best-known contemporary Indian women writers, albeit largely for the controversy that her candid, confessional writing has sparked in the relatively traditional context of Indian academia. Since ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022)This thesis explores representations of intercorporeality in a selection of Virginia Woolf’s fiction and non-fiction, in conversation with Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s writings on phenomenology and ontology. This study offers ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2014-05)This dissertation examines the five biographies or memoirs written about the renowned South African writer Herman Charles Bosman. The main aim of the study is to show how different, and often contradictory, the views of ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2010-05-17)The thesis relates Coetzee’s focus on animals to his more familiar themes of the possibility of fiction as a vehicle for serious ethical issues, the interrogation of power and authority, a concern for the voiceless and the ...
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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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(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, 2010)This mini-dissertation examines selected poems by three female poets who deal with what I have termed ‘the personal’ in relation to specifically female concerns in their poetry, namely Anne Sexton, Antjie Krog and Finuala ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2013)Anne Brontë died in 1848, having written two novels, Agnes Grey (1847) and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848). Although these novels, especially The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, initially received a favourable critical response, ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2020-12)In the period since apartheid ended and democracy was introduced into South Africa a complaint of many white people is that, while democracy is laudable, what is shocking is that in many cities the ‘white’ or ‘European’ ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2013)Critics such as Elizabeth Napier and Lorraine Sim explore some aspects of space and borders in their discussions of Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights, presumably to demonstrate that the novel is a representative nineteenth-century ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2012)This dissertation for the M.A. in Creative Writing consists of a full-length play, titled Last Laugh and a mini-dissertation. The mini-dissertation explores the phenomenon of Theatre-for-Development, which differs significantly ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2023)The beginning of the demise of apartheid in 1990 with the release of Nelson Mandela and the formal end of apartheid with the first democratic elections in 1994 were conceived by some to spell the death of South African ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2014)This thesis investigates the depiction of ageing and old age in several key works of South African literature of the transitional and post-transitional period. The study covers texts set both in the transitional period ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2021-04)This dissertation explores the psychological effect of social inequality and social injustices fostered by colonialism as portrayed by Tsitsi Dangarembga in her novel, This Mournable Body (2018), the third novel in her ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2008-09-08)As a modernist, Virginia Woolf aimed at the modernisation of existing forms of artistic expression. However, she was also a very historically aware author. Thus the main issues and questions that this dissertation aims at ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2012-06-18)Apartheid may have ended formally in 1994, but its legacy endures in many aspects of South African society and in the lives of individual South Africans. One of the difficulties which post-apartheid South Africa has had ...
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