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Browsing Theses and Dissertations (English) by Type "Thesis"
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(University of Pretoria, 2007-11-23)Please read the abstract in the 00front part of this document
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(University of Pretoria, 1999)This thesis sets out to provide what is perceived as the nature of Islam and background that inform the interpretation of the two novels ofMariama Ba as well as that of selected works by fellow Muslim writer, N awal ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2013-01-08)"The emergence of English as an international language in a number of domains has implications which are becoming a matter of widespread discussion among both linguists and the general public. In the face of the increasing ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022)The thesis Border thinking as literary imaginations: Rereading decolonial entanglements in fiction by Bessie Head, Tsitsi Dangarembga and Kopano Matlwa is inspired by the contemporary decolonial debates and draws both from ...
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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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(University of Pretoria, 2019)This thesis critiques the representations, and lacunas in representation, of teenage girls’ sexual desires in a selection of young adult (YA) novels written since the turn of the millenium, considering their contributions ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2010)Enid Blyton and Agatha Christie were the most successful British women writers of their time. Christie and Blyton were contemporaries, living and writing in the United Kingdom during the first half of the twentieth century. ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2021)This thesis is concerned with T.S. Eliot’s exploration and depiction of art in his Four Quartets. Central to this investigation is the logos/flux paradigm, which is established by the two quotations from Herakleitos, a 6th ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2005-06-15)For years the quality of Ethiopian education has been lamented over and some have warned of the crises of running an inefficient educational system and its detrimental effects on nation building (Tekeste 1990:84). One of ...
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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, 2021)By examining critically poems in which Sylvia Plath’s speakers appear as daughters, wives, and mothers, this study situates Plath as an artist operating within Romantic and Modernist traditions of exemplary suffering. The ...
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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, 2021)The aim of this thesis on the Victorian poet/novelist George Meredith is to analyse the philosophical and psychological aspects of some of his poetry in relation to his reputation as a ‘difficult’ author. The study attempts ...
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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, 2015)As a scholar, Tolkien spent a great deal of time working from manuscripts. Likewise, as a storyteller, in The Lord of the Rings, Tolkien creates a narrative persona who bases his story on his compilation and translation ...
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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, 2016)Repellents play a key role in preventing mosquito-borne diseases such as malaria by reducing human-vector contact. The general mechanism of action relies on providing a repelling vapour around the applied area on the ...
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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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