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The application and modification of human resource management in the critical analysis of Harry Potter
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2016-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis revisits the much-discredited idea of a “common sense” way of reading a literary text. It proposes that a common sense reading – one that treats narrative fictions as reflections of the real ... -
An examination of prison, criminality and power in selected contemporary Kenyan and South African narratives
(Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2010-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis undertakes a comparative examination of South African and Kenyan auto/biographical narratives of crime and imprisonment. Although some attention is paid to narratives of political imprisonment, ... -
Historicising borders : studies in Nigerian novels
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2019-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: More than ever before, border studies is enjoying scholarly attention and cutting across many disciplinary boundaries. The re-shaping of borders, triggered by globalisation and other trans-border historical ... -
Praxis and/as critique in the translations of the oeuvre of Ingrid Winterbach
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In this dissertation I investigate how aesthetics, politics and ethics intersect as material flows in translation, and how these actualise in the oeuvre of Lettie Viljoen/Ingrid Winterbach. With the ... -
Prizing African literature : awards and cultural value
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2016-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study investigates the centrality of international literary awards in African literary production with an emphasis on the Caine Prize for African Writing (CP) and the Commonwealth Short Story Prize ... -
Womens historical fiction after feminism : discursive reconstructions of the Tudors in contemporary literature
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Historical fiction is a genre in a constant state of flux: since its inception in the nineteenth century, it has been shaped by cultural trends and has persistently responded to the way in which history ...
