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Sad relicks and apt admonishments: Wordsworth's depiction of the poor in his work dating from the 1790s to 1807.
(1994)The aim of this thesis is to show, by means of a chronological study of poverty as treated in the poetry dating from the early 1790's to 1807, that Wordsworth's treatment of this topic was both highly politicized and ... -
Scenography in context : a comparative analysis of the influences on set designs for Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera The Magic Flute (1791) with specific reference to selected set designers.
(2013)The aim of this dissertation is to comparatively analyse the set designs for Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s (1756-1791) opera, The Magic Flute (1791), with specific reference to selected set designers from the 18th to the early ... -
SCRIPSIT : a model for establishing trustable privacies in online public spaces.
(2004)This dissertation proposes a model supporting the creation of trustable privacies in public online spaces, with the model demonstrating the potential for supporting trustable data handling in the qualitative domain. Privacy ... -
Self, life and writing in selected South African autobiographical texts.
(1994)Autobiographical writing acquired increasing importance during the apartheid period, with greater numbers of autobiographical texts being published by a more representative range of South Africans across race, class and ... -
Shadow sounds : an original collection of poetry and an essay on questions of femaleness and diaspora in Meena Alexander's Illiterate heart.
(2013)Shadow Sounds: an Original Collection of Poetry and an Essay on Questions of Femaleness and Diaspora in Meena Alexander’s Illiterate Heart. The thesis comprises two parts: an original collection of poetry entitled Shadow ... -
Shifting spaces in the 'new South Africa' : site-specific performance as an intercultural exploration of sites, using as examples Jay Pather's Cityscapes, Durban (2002) and Home, Durban (2003)
(2006)This dissertation aims to investigate an extended notion of site within site-specific dance theatre. Using multiple theoretical frameworks, which include second wave feminism and its recognition of the body as a site of/for ... -
The silence at the interface : culture and narrative in selected twentieth-century Southern African novels in English.
(1992)The primary intention of this study is to establish the theoretical significance of silence within the sphere of the twentieth-century Southern African novel in English. Clearly a feature of recent writing, silence is ... -
"Sister outsiders" : the representation of identity and difference in selected writings by South African Indian women.
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A social capital perspective on prison theatre and change : a case study at the youth centre, Westville Correctional Facility, Durban.
(2011)This dissertation explores the effects of a Prison Theatre project conducted at the Youth Centre at Westville Correctional Centre in 2010. It explores the relationship between change and increased levels of Social Capital ... -
Social marketing and health service promotion : a needs analysis for the antiretroviral rollout at the University of KwaZulu-Natal.
(2005)RN/AIDS has had a particularly devastating effect on sub-Saharan nations, including South Africa. Thus, a national rollout of antiretroviral drugs - capable of mitigating the effects of the epidemic - has been vigorously ... -
Social power through self-imaging in participatory video amongst the Khwe bushmen community of Platfontein.
(2011)Voices of Our Forefathers (2008) is a participatory video that was made with a group of Khwe Bushmen in Platfontein in the Northern Cape. It is unique not only for its inclusion of the Khwe subjects in the production ... -
Some aspects of the dynamic process of creativity with special reference to the choreographer and director in the theatre.
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Some aspects of the nature and incidence of stuttering among Indian primary school children in Durban.
(1971)Stuttering has been a complex problem ever since the early history of man. It has been found to exist in some cultures to a greater extent than in others. In certain primitive cultures the phenomenon of stuttering was ... -
Sounding the body's meridian : signifying community and "the body national" in post-apartheid South African theatre.
(2009)Sounding the Body’s Meridian examines the ways in which notions of belonging are constructed through the display of bodies in performance, specifically the registers of private and public body that have been revealed in ... -
South African history painting : reinterpretation by women artists.
(1996)The title of this thesis 'South African History Painting : Reinterpretation By Women Artists' indicated that the focus was to be on South African history painting. As the research progressed, however, it became apparent ...