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Browsing Unit for Creative Writing by Title
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(LitNet, 2008)In this article an overview is provided of Afrikaans poetry for the period 2004–2007. Book publications and activities concerning Afrikaans poetry, such as arts festivals, radio programmes and websites, are discussed. ...
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(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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(Litnet, 2014-12)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 ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022)Abstract 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 ...
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(Routledge, 2025)In the face of global warming, human over-population, the catastrophic consequences of being who and what we are, of what our languages have defined us to be, we need to rediscover nature’s own voice. Far from imposing a ...
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(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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(University of Pretoria, 2013)In die Afrikaanse letterkunde speel voëls by verskeie digters ’n belangrike rol – as simbole of metafore, of bloot as onderwerp in tradisionele natuurgedigte. Ook in die oeuvre van D.J. Opperman, een van die grootste ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2014)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 ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2024-05-30)The poetry collection A Place to Night In features themes of place, home and belonging. The author uses his own experiences as a springboard for a wider engagement on displacement, diverse landscapes, attachment to place ...
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(AOSIS Open Journals, 2013-11-22)Skryfkuns is ’n relatief nuwe vak aan Suid-Afrikaanse universiteite. Die bestek en metodologie van hierdie vakgebied is plaaslik nog nie na behore ondersoek nie. In dié artikel word die dosering van Skryfkuns as vak, ...
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(Routledge, 2021)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 ...
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(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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(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 ...
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The familiar and the familial : an exploration of personal, post-apartheid poetry written by women (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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(Afrikaanse Letterkundevereniging, 2013)D.J. Opperman, one of the most prominent Afrikaans poets of the 20th century, often used birds as symbols and metaphors to describe or reinforce human emotions or conduct. This is especially evident in Heilige beeste (1945), ...
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(Unisa Press, 2011-05-06)Ten years after Betsie van der Westhuizen’s (1999) argumentation, this article attempts to take stock of the state and place of Afrikaans children’s and juvenile books in the Afrikaans literary system. By making use of ...
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(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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(Tydskrif vir Letterkunde Assosiasie, 2008-08)My eerste kennismaking met Elize Botha was gedurende die tweede semester van my derde jaar aan die Universiteit van Pretoria, 1982. Professor Botha het Afrikaanse prosa gedoseer en ek was baie nuuskierig om hierdie dosent ...
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(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 ...
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(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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