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 ...
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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The visualisation of the post-death existence in South African films has grown over the past few years, proving that the South African screen can be a haunted place. In contrast, the romantic comedy genre has ...
Although it is oppressive to women, polygamy is still relevant in many contemporary African societies, where the culturally acceptable identity of a woman is as a wife and mother, as demonstrated in Lola Shoneyin’s The ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The need for and feasibility of a PhD degree in CreativeWriting is discussed. The structure and
content of PhDs in this field in the UK, USA and Australia are examined. The focus then shifts
towards the content and ...
Coetzee, Corné Elizabeth(University of Pretoria, 2015)
Die ekokritiek is ‟n relatief nuwe veld in die literatuurstudie, maar met groter bewussyn van die ál dringender omgewingskrisis het akademici sedert die 1990‟s meer aandag daaraan begin gee. Kort ná die vestiging van ...
Die kernvraag wat in die mini-verhandeling verken word, is hoe dominees in hulle hantering van die dood in enkele kreatiewe werke van Karel Schoeman uitgebeeld word en baie spesifiek hoe persone in die amp in die Protestantse ...
Steampunk is ʼn nuwe sub-genre van wetenskapsfiksie wat sy oorsprong in 1987 gekry
het toe skrywer KW Jeter die term vir die eerste keer gebruik het. Vandaar het
Steampunk as ʼn subkultuur ontwikkel in ʼn magdom manifestasies ...
Kleyn, Leti; Marais, Johannes Lodewyk(Suider-Afrikaanse Vereniging vir Neerlandistiek, 2009)
In July 1964 the list of banned publications in South Africa stood at 12 000 titles and increased
rapidly thereafter. Between 1955 and 1971 thousands of titles were burned in municipal ovens. In
this article the second ...
Die geesteswetenskappe, en spesifiek letterkunde en literatuurstudies, loop toenemend deur onder kritiek oor die relevansie van letterkunde in die 21ste eeu. Die letterkundige Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht reken egter dat die ...
Breytenbach, A.P.B. (Andries Petrus Bernardus), 1944-(University of Pretoria, 2014)
In hierdie navorsingsessay word die rol wat tipering, stereotipering en destereotipering speel in „n kortverhaal, nagegaan aan die hand van die Jona-vertelling. Ná ‟n kort bespreking word ‟n werksdefinisie van tipering, ...
Skuld en vergifnis is verwikkelde konstrukte wat deur die eeue in verskillende
religieuse, sosiologiese, psigologiese, wetlike en private ruimtes ontwikkel het
en steeds ontwikkel. Hierdie konstrukte word gesien as deel ...
Marais, Johannes Lodewyk(Tydskrif vir Letterkunde Assosiasie, 2015-01)
In 1937, the Danish-born writer Karen Blixen published Out of Africa, an autobiographical account, in English, of the seventeen
years she spent in Africa (from 1914 until 1931). During those years, she forged a permanent ...
Kleyn, Leti(South African Journal of Art History, 2014)
On 6 September 1966, former prime minister Hendrik F. Verwoerd was assassinated in parliament by
Demitrios Tsafendas. Whilst two books were published on this subject (Scholtz, 1967 & Schoeman,
1975), the individual ...
Van Loggerenberg, Marianne; Kleyn, Leti(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2014)
In this article, creative relationships between poetry (lexical text) and visual art (‘text’-in-images)
are examined and illustrated with an example. The article focuses on the potential for a heightened
experienced that ...
In 1984 the novel Storm Sevenster by Afrikaans poet Wessel Pretorius, caused havoc with rumours that publisher Perskor intended to submit the publication to the censorship board before accepting it for publication. This ...