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Browsing Theses and Dissertations (Unit for Creative Writing) by Supervisor "Medalie, David"
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Coleman, Dylan
(University of Pretoria, 2021)
The dissertation component of this Master’s degree explores the animist ethic in Zakes Mda’s The Heart of Redness; more specifically it will examine how an animist cosmology underlies many of the ethical values in the text ...
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Ndiyah, Yvumbom Florence
(University of Pretoria, 2020)
Set against the backdrop of the “Anglophone crisis” ravaging parts of Cameroon, my novel, The Things We Don’t Talk About, centres on two young women who, through monogamous and polygamous marriages as well as extra-marital ...
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De Decker, Kristin
(University of Pretoria, 2023-12-10)
This dissertation explores the multivocality and multiplicity of post-apartheid, personal poetry written by South African women. By analysing selected personal poetry by Malika Ndlovu, Finuala Dowling, Koleka Putuma, Michèle ...
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Breytenbach, Albertus
(University of Pretoria, 2022-12)
This study investigates the relationship between historical fiction, history, and the portrayal of the identity of historical figures with specific reference to two novels by Michiel Heyns, namely: The Typewriter’s Tale ...
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Taylor, Fiona
(University of Pretoria, 2023)
The Master of the Unsayable is an examination of Elena Ferrante's use of realism as an authorial technique, and of what 'truth' means and has the potential to mean in a work of fiction. This is done via an investigation ...
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Owen, Harry
(University of Pretoria, 2023-08)
The poetry collection To the foothills is in four parts, each representing an element of what my thesis terms the corporate world’s ‘default discourse’: Investment, Profit, Loss and Dividend. Although there is some inevitable ...