Browsing English, Media and Performance Studies by Title
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Investigating and exploring the role of community newspapers against the background of profit-driven media environment : a Pietermaritzburg based study.
(2010)The aim of the study is to investigate and explore the role of community newspapers against the background of profit-driven media environment. The study adopted a qualitative research method. Data was collected using ... -
Investigating beneficiary communities' participation in HIV/AIDS communication through community radio stations : a case study of X-K FM.
(2012)The thrust of this dissertation is concerned with investigating beneficiary communities‟ participation in HIV/AIDS communication through community radio stations. The aim is to understand the presence and access of targeted ... -
An investigation into the stereotypical representation of gender roles in advertising : a case study of advertisements from a cross-section of popular South African weekly and bi-weekly newspapers.
(2004)This study was designed to investigate the representation of gender roles in advertisements in popular South African newspapers, namely, the Sunday Times, Rapport, City Press, Post and Ilanga. The literature reviewed ... -
An investigation into the use of terms aithiops and aithiopia in Greek literature from Homer to Lycophron.
(1997)The Greeks and Romans were acquainted with dark skinned people from Africa from an early stage. It has been generally accepted that such people were referred to as aithiopias; by the Greeks, and modem commentators have ... -
Irony in Herman Charles Bosman's Oom Schalk stories.
(2003)Herman Charles Bosman's Oom Schalk stories have made him one of the most popular writers in South Africa, and the rural Marico District in which the stories are set a popular tourist destination. This popularity is largely ... -
Ivan Vladislavic and what-what : among writers, readers and ‘other odds, sods and marginals’.
(Southern African Literature and Culture Centre, 2009)This essay is an experimental quodlibet on some recent Johannesburg imaginative writing. It works outwards from a creative ‘overview’ of Ivan Vladislavić's position in South African literature to a perspective on versions ... -
Joseph Conrad's Victory : a case study of the primary text, selected critical commentary, Natal Senior Certificate English first language examination questions and a selection of candidates' examination responses in 1990, with suggested developments in pedagogical practice.
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Journeying beyond Embo : the construction of exile, place and identity in the writings of Lewis.
(2007)A boundary is not that at which something stops, but ...is that from which something begins its presencing. (Bhabha 1994:1) For the purpose of this thesis, the above statement will be central, because implicit in it ... -
"Kasia from Honey street" : a novel in the thriller mode set in contemporary Poland.
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Kendrew Lascelles : selected works : a biographical, thematic and stylistic introduction.
(2011)This dissertation–half of the MA in English Studies by coursework and dissertation–examines selected works of the playwright, poet and novelist, Kendrew Lascelles, who spent his youth and young adulthood in South Africa, ... -
Kof' abantu, kosal' izibongo? : contested histories of Shaka, Phungashe and Zwide in izibongo and izithakazelo.
(2004)In this dissertation, I argue that there is a pressing need in post-apartheid KwaZulu-Natal to re-assess the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century histories of the region from the perspectives of people whose ancestry was ... -
Landscape as metaphor : the interpretation of selected paintings by (Amy) Bertha Everard.
(2002)This dissertation is a study of selected works of the South African landscape painter Amy Bertha Everard (l 873-1965) with the emphasis on discovering relevant means of interpreting her use of landscape as metaphor. In ... -
The language of dreams : a study of transcultural magical realism in four postcolonial texts.
(2005)This research provides an analytical reading of four contemporary novels, in a transcultural study of magical realism and dreams. Two of the novels, Ben Okri's The Famished Road and its sequel Songs of Enchantment, examine ... -
Letters to who : an original cycle of poems that explores the confluence of space, the quotidian and memory in contemporary suburban South Africa.
(2014)Letters to Who consists of an original cycle of poetry which explores the confluence of space, the quotidian and memory. The material in my cycle of poems exposes the dynamic of everyday life and also the role that memory ... -
Liberalism in South African English literature 1948-1990 : a reassessment of the work of Alan Paton and Athol Fugard.
(1996)This thesis examines the concept of liberalism as it informs, and is expressed in, the work of two of the most prominent South African writers during the apartheid era of 1948-1990: Alan Paton and Athol Fugard. The aim ... -
Life-stories : ethnographic portraits of victims of the 2015 xenophobic attacks in Durban - South Africa.
(2016)The borders of the Rainbow nation opened up in 1994 after Nelson Mandela became president. Since that time South Africa is faced with immigration issues which have led to an influx of foreigners in search for a better life ... -
Locating the popular-democratic in South African resistance literature in English, 1970-1990.
(1998)As a conjunctural construct located between politics, society and art, the popular-democratic construes the resistance literature of the 1970s and 1980s as being expressive of an entire social movement to end oppression ... -
Lyric↔L/language: essaying the poetics of contemporary women’s poetry.
(UNISA Press; Routledge/Taylor & Francis, 2011)Using the deliberately provocative strategies of “essaying” and “error”, which have become central to the poetry and poetics of women experimental writers such as Kathleen Fraser, Lyn Hejinian and Rachel Blau DuPlessis, ...