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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ...
