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Browsing English by Type "Dissertation"
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The Agency of the Servant : Reframing Domestic Service in Contemporary South African Popular Forms (University of Pretoria, 2022)Representations of domestic workers and their relationships with employers occur in several fictional/non-fictional post-apartheid narratives in South Africa, including chick-lit, self-help literature and television series. ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2005-10-28)Angela Carter (1940-1992) positions herself as a writer in ‘the demythologising business’ (1983b:38). She defines myth in ‘a sort of conventional sense; also in the sense that Roland Barthes uses it in Mythologies’ (in ...
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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, 2006-06-17)The realm of fantasy literature has always been that of the 'invisible', in as much as it has either been 'excluded' from traditional academic circles or at most marginalised from the general body of literary texts and ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2020)This study investigates a thus far neglected aspect of Olive Schreiner’s feminism, namely her subversion of Victorian gender models in her early novels, Undine and The Story of an African Farm. In order to determine what ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2007-11-12)This feminist analysis addresses Lindsey Collen’s intertextual use of myth in The Rape of Sita and how her reformation of the parodied texts becomes a resistance to patriarchy. Collen’s examination of possible counteractions ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2007-02-16)Please read the abstract in the 00front part of this document
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(University of Pretoria, 2023)Between the years of 1976 and 1990, J. M. Coetzee’s In the Heart of the Country, Foe, and Age of Iron were published. These three novels – the subjects of this dissertation – stand out within Coetzee’s oeuvre because of ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2020-10)This dissertation considers Philip K. Dick’s dystopian vision by discussing the dystopian elements that are present in three of his novels – Martian Time-Slip, The Penultimate Truth, and A Scanner Darkly. Dick is universally ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2019)This dissertation explores the ways in which two contemporary texts, Sheri S. Tepper’s (1990) The gate to Women’s Country and Margaret Atwood’s (2005) The Penelopiad, adapt classical texts by Euripides and Homer in order ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2017)The aim of this dissertation is to critically examine the representation of female madness in The Bell Jar, by Sylvia Plath, Wide Sargasso Sea, by Jean Rhys, and Surfacing, by Margaret Atwood, with a particular emphasis ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2008-09-05)This research emerges from an observation that Douglas Adams’s Hitch Hiker Series is not merely characterised by light-hearted comedy, but is underpinned by intricate philosophical ideas, especially those of twentieth ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2020)This study aims to explore the ways in which South African authors in the post-2000 context employ the figure of the millennial to investigate issues relating to gender, sexuality, class and race against the background of ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2010)Kamala Das is one of the best-known contemporary Indian women writers, albeit largely for the controversy that her candid, confessional writing has sparked in the relatively traditional context of Indian academia. Since ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2015)This dissertation focuses on Ursula K. Le Guin’s Annals of the Western Shore (2004-2007) series. Ursula Le Guin is a renowned fantasy and science fiction writer, and has won numerous awards for her work. The series is a ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2023-08-12)This dissertation explores the representation of Afro-Caribbean mythology, folklore, and tradition in postcolonial Caribbean poetry. In addition, this study explores how references to Afro-Caribbean folklore connect the ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2005-02-10)Contemporary children’s books, particularly picture books, show an increasing tendency towards complexity and sophistication. There is, however, some resistance to this tendency in the children’s book world. This thesis ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022)This dissertation offers a unified application of Jeffrey Jerome Cohen’s ‘Seven Monster Theses’ (first introduced in Cohen’s 1996 Monster Theory: Reading Culture), and Howard Phillips Lovecraft’s (1890-1937) Supernatural ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022)This dissertation discusses post-2000s queer African short fiction in the context of haunting.
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(University of Pretoria, 2014-05)This dissertation examines the five biographies or memoirs written about the renowned South African writer Herman Charles Bosman. The main aim of the study is to show how different, and often contradictory, the views of ...
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