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Browsing Theses and Dissertations (Unit for Creative Writing) by Type "Thesis"
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Maccani, Mario
(University of Pretoria, 2011-10-24)
This study is comprised of two parts: an unauthorised biography of the South African musician David Kramer, as well as a reflective look at the process of writing this biography. In this regard the following aspects were ...
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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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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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Jansen van Vuuren, Anna-Marie
(University of Pretoria, 2015)
Does the hero make history or does history make the hero? This question, which N.P. van Wyk Louw posed in his 1962 radio drama, Die Held, is of utmost importance to this thesis. In Van Kavalier tot Verraaier Zombie tot ...
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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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Van Aardt, Peet Petrus
(University of Pretoria, 2016)
The primary research question in my study is "[t]o what extent resources such as letters contribute to the narrative in biography?. With reference to JC Kannemeyer's biography Leroux: 'n Lewe and Charles Bukowski by Barry ...
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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 ...