Masters Degrees (English)
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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 ... -
Monstrous losses and broken fairy tales : fantasy, loss and trauma in young adult literature
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2016-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis explores the portrayal of loss and mourning in young adult fiction by analysing three contemporary examples, namely David Almond’s Skellig, Patrick Ness’s A Monster Calls and Alexia Casale’s ... -
Screening the posthuman : disembodied masculinity in virtual reality films
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2016-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In science fiction films, cyborgs are often represented as embodiments of a transhuman drive to escape the limitations of the human body. This technologically mediated evolution is a continuation in the ... -
Chaucer's food basket : nature, sex and violence in The Canterbury tales
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2016-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis explores the representation of food in Geoffrey Chaucer‘s The Canterbury Tales. The food and food culture of a specific time and place disclose particular kinds of information about the social ... -
Nihil moralia: culture industries in the 21st Century
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2015-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Utilising the works of Theodor W. Adorno (especially Minima Moralia (1951)) and other Critical Theorists, this dissertation examines and critiques contemporary cultural products, in search of cultural ... -
"Epochal weaving" : metaphors of narrative and metafiction in Marlene van Niekerk's Triomf and Agaat
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2015-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis examines the use of specific narrative strategies, metafiction and metaphor in Mar-lene van Niekerk’s Triomf (2004) an Agaat (2010). Each of these expansive novels are set in South Africa ... -
Trauma, healing, mourning and narrative voice in the epistolary mode
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2015-15)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The epistolary mode in fiction has long been associated with the expression of trauma experienced by women who are confined to a private, domestic and interior space. However, this mode also, paradoxically, ... -
Picturing South Africa : an exploration of ekphrasis in post-apartheid fiction
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2015-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: South Africa's period of transition has given rise to new forms of cultural and artistic production, which both speak to and reflect the nation's changing social, political and ethical climate. This ...
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