Masters Degrees (English)
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Considering coloureds : detangling representations of coloured women in Post-Apartheid South Africa
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2020-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Coloured identity remains a contentious and complex topic in contemporary South African conversations. As an academic area of study, topics based on coloured identity and culture have been written since ... -
In that gathering dusk – wonder, horror, and the transitory pedestrianism of Austerlitz
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2020-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In this study I investigate the critical potential inherent in dusk, a motif that functions as the predominant temporal setting of W.G. Sebald’s Austerlitz. My aim is to explore how this pervasive literary ... -
Stigma and the metaphorics of language : reading disease as dis-ease and reclaiming metaphor in selected contemporary South African literature
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2019-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Contemporary South African literature dealing with HIV/AIDS and depression serves to interrogate and expose the racist ideological foundations for the stigmatic language of metaphor which surrounds these ... -
An analysis of narratology in mainstream film through the application of gender equity critical assessment
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2019-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Gender inequity in the Hollywood film industry highlights the importance of continued feminist filmdiscourse development and analysis. Female representation in film is also assessed through popular media ... -
The fantasy of female sexual freedom in Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber and in John Logan's Penny Dreadful.
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2019-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Despite considerable investigation into the nature of female sexuality and the manner in which it has been portrayed over the years, debate remains regarding what is acceptable and what is not. Furthermore, ... -
The afterlife of the Victorian marriage plot in neo-Victorian fiction
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2019-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The neo-Victorian novel is known for exposing the hidden sex lives of what Steven Marcus in The Other Victorians: A Study of Sexuality and Pornography in Mid-Nineteenth-Century England (1964) and, following ... -
The representation of Egypt in Ahdaf Soueif's The map of love
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2019-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis studies the way in which Ahdaf Soueif portrays her country, Egypt, in her second novel, The Map of Love (1999). The Map of Love is a historical novel with a bifurcated plotline set at the ... -
The metaphorics of erotic pursuit and sexual violence in classical mythology and its transformations by women poets
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The portrayal of heterosexual desire in classical myth is often ambivalent, without clear distinctions between seduction and sexual violence. The sexual exploits of male gods like Zeus, Apollo and Poseidon ... -
Graphic testimonies : voicing the unutterable in auto/biographics of war
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Since the early 1980s graphic narratives (novels) have developed into a nuanced and complex medium of creative expression. Experimentation with aesthetics, form and narrative content have resulted in a ... -
Poetics of passage in modernist reconfigurations of Odysseus
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2017-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: While the prevalence of the figure of Odysseus in Western literature has been much studied, insufficient attention has been paid to its associations with epistemology, and to the semiotic potential of the ... -
Fearful spheres and domestic rebellion : reading the Female Gothic in selected twentieth century literary texts
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2017-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Due to the nature of the separate spheres of Western society during the mid-Nineteenth to mid-Twentieth centuries, men were put into the public sphere to learn and contribute to knowledge, create and ... -
Lily Herne’s Deadlands series and the practice of zombie politics in present-day South Africa
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2017-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Since its initial publication in 2011, the Deadlands series gained an increasing amount of critical attention, owing to its relevance to contemporary South African society. The series demonstrates the ... -
The body has a mind of its own
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2017-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This dissertation explores the mind versus body dialectic of the Enlightenment period. My thesis draws attention to the tensions within Enlightenment ideology and the manner in which materialist philosophy ... -
From ‘Apartheid’ to the ‘Rainbow Nation’ and beyond : the representation of childhood and youth in South African coming-of-age narratives
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2017-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis examines the representation of childhood and youth in South African coming-of-age narratives set in the apartheid and post-apartheid eras. Although child and youth protagonists feature prominently ... -
Drawn too extreme : an examination of the satire and the representations of the other in the works of Kurt Westergaard and Zapiro
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2016-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Using as a starting point Voltaire’s statement “I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it”, coupled with an emphasis on the contrary standpoint that a little ... -
Reconstructing English Studies in South Africa through blended learning
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2016-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Facing declining student enrolment, budgetary constraints, questions regarding the discipline’s relevance, and a student body inadequately prepared by secondary education, English Studies educators in ... -
Redeeming loneliness: Paul Ricouer's strangeness and recognition in Marilynne Robinson's Gilead, Home and Lila
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2016-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In a dissertation which aims to bring together the work of French philosopher Paul Ricoeur, and American novelist and academic Marilynne Robinson, this study addresses themes of loneliness and its redemption ... -
The Zimbabwean crisis : locations of writing and the literary representation of Zimbabwe’s ‘lost decade.’
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2016-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study examines literary representations of the Zimbabwean crisis to ascertain how geographic, race and gender locations of writing influence the interpretation of the internal and external displacement ... -
Redeeming loneliness : Paul Ricoeur’s strangeness and recognition in Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead, Home and Lila
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2017-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In a dissertation which aims to bring together the work of French philosopher Paul Ricoeur, and American novelist and academic Marilynne Robinson, this study addresses themes of loneliness and its ... -
Reza de Wet's channelling of the long nineteenth century on post-1994 South African stages
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2016-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis focuses on Reza de Wet's channelling of the long nineteenth century on post-1994 stages. I conceptualise her adaptation and appropriation of nineteenth-century British and European literature ...
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