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Browsing Theses and Dissertations (English) by Supervisor "Noomé, Idette"
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(University of Pretoria, 2003)This study explores reasons for Enid Blyton’s vast popularity. Blyton and her life are discussed in terms of the production and reception of her texts in the light of changing dominant discourses in society and varying ...
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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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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, 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, 2015)In his Truth and Method, Gadamer explains that subjectivity is the everyday understanding that allows us to engage with the world. Gadamer identifies three main aspects that effect our understanding, namely history, language ...
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"Save oure tonges difference" : reflections on translating Chaucer’s Canterbury tales into Afrikaans (University of Pretoria, 2019)The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer (c1340-1400) is acknowledged as a major work of world literature. It has been translated, as a whole or in part, into more than fifty languages. This study reflects on the process ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2021)This study explores, through detailed analysis, the many and varied depictions of mothering, in a broad sense, in Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women series, published between 1868 and 1886, and in Lucy Maud Montgomery’s Anne ...
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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, 2009)This study explores constructions and representations of boyhood in selected historical and recent boys’ school stories through the discourses they represent, propagate and, at times, subvert. Foucault’s views on discourse ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022-08)Globalization, rapid technological advances and complex problems require scientists to cross-collaborate to solve problems, and to compete for funding in an interdisciplinary arena. This involves communication across ...
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