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Browsing Theses and Dissertations (English) by Issue Date
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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, 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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Meaning in Small, Snyders and Pearce : an application of Lotman’s semiotics to ‘coloured’ literature (University of Pretoria, 2004)In this study, a semiotic point of view of selected literature written by ‘coloured’ writers is examined, using some of the semiotic theories of Jurij M. Lotman, one of the leading Soviet semioticians of the school of ...
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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, 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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(University of Pretoria, 2005-08-03)This dissertation applies Heidegger’s belief that works of art ‘disclose’ or ‘unconceal’ the world to the study of fictional texts in the English literary tradition. I supplement Heidegger’s ideas with an account of the ...
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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, 2006-05-19)Read the abstract in the section 00front of this document.
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(University of Pretoria, 2006-06-17)The study explores the complex relationship between various manifestations of the self and the other in twentieth century Science Fiction (SF). According to Richard Bernstein (1983), much modem thought is still influenced ...
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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, 2006-09-02)This thesis, SPEECH ACT THEORY AND COMMUNICATION: A UNIVEN STUDY, is an investigation into the communicative competence of a group of second language speakers. The study employs Speech Act Theory, a discourse evaluation ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2006-09-05)Workplace English skills for Grade 9 languages in C21 argues that a most valuable contribution of any educational programme in a developing country is the imparting of (English) workplace skills to school-leavers. The ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2006-11-22)Essay writing is one of the major academic practices that students are expected to master and display. As there is a paucity of information on the nature of sociocultural influence on second language education in the Limpopo ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2006-12-08)How can we speak of the action of the mind under any divisions, as of its knowledge, of its ethics, of its works, and so forth, since it melts will into perception, knowledge into act? Each becomes the other. Itself alone ...
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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, 2007-02-28)Epic, among the earliest and most universal of genres, is found in a developed form among the most ancient written records of cultures from China to Greece, and has been recorded as oral narrative on every inhabited ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2007-05-15)This study explores the social ‘vision’ of three Shona women writers vis-à-vis their Zimbabwean society, attempting to ascertain whether this vision is entrenched in the post-independence context or has been shaped by the ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2007-08-02)This study seeks to focus on the total female experience of African women and the reappropriation of a more authentic portrayal of the identity of women in African literature. In this dissertation, a chapter is devoted to ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2007-08-30)Please read the abstract in the 00front part of this document
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(University of Pretoria, 2007-09-11)Using selected stories by two North African women writers, Alifa Rifaat of Egypt and Assia Djebar of Algeria, this study, entitled ‘Islamic culture and the question of women’s human rights in North Africa: a study of short ...
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