Browsing English, Media and Performance Studies by Issue Date
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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 ... -
Studies in structure : an analysis of four of the novels of George Eliot.
(1973)No abstract available. -
A new species of writing : a study of the novels of Samuel Richardson.
(1978)No abstract available. -
Some aspects of the dynamic process of creativity with special reference to the choreographer and director in the theatre.
(1979)No abstract available. -
In a manner of speaking : some aspects of structure, including narration, in the novels of Elizabeth Gaskell.
(1980)No abstract available. -
The international novel : a study of its origins and emergence as a genre in nineteenth century American fiction.
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Myth in the novels of Herman Melville.
(1984)Myth in the Novels of Herman Melville: A Study of the Functions of the Myths of Eden, the Golden Age, and Hero and Dragon in Three Novels of Herman Melville--Typee, Moby-Dick, and Billy Budd, Sailor. In Typee, Melville ... -
A critical study of Olive Schreiner's fiction in a historical and biographical context.
(1985)Olive Schreiner's fiction is best understood in the context of her colonial situation : she experienced central Victorian spiritual dilemmas and social constrictions, but refracted through a rural colonial culture. A ... -
Explorations in drama, theatre and education : a critique of theatre studies in South Africa.
(1987)This dissertation explores the potential of theatre studies to develop a pragmatic and relevant pedagogy for South African students and adults. The contention is that the dominant paradigm as conceptualized in the discipline ... -
The immanent voice : an aspect of unreliable homodiegetic narration.
(1988)Unreliable homodiegetic narration presents a unique mode of narrative transmission which demands the encoding within the text of 'translational indices', that is, signifiers of several kinds which justify the reader/receiver ... -
Performance polemics in a plural society : South African theatre in transition.
(1988)"It was clearly the Government (by a great section of the electorate) that brought politics into the theatre, and we, the producers, the actors, the theatre-goers must pay the price for it." Alan Paton. This thesis ... -
A critical commentary on the Four quartets of T.S. Eliot.
(1989)This sequential reading of Four Quartets attends closely to form, rhythm, image, idea, syntax, tone, and mood, examining the relations of one to another and of one part of the cycle to another. It draws on earlier studies ... -
Nathaniel Nakasa, the journalist as autobiographer : a crisis of identity.
(1990)Nathaniel Ndazana Nakasa [1937 - 1965] was a South African journalist who reported for llanga Lase [Natal] in 1956 and 1957, for Drum magazine from 1958 to 1964 and wrote a column for the Saturday edition of the Rand Daily ... -
Mary Benson : the problem of defining the "self".
(1991)This study investigates the problem of defining Mary Benson as a person and a writer. Her writing spans a range of generic classifications - biography, history, plays, a novel and an autobiography. Yet, all are centred ... -
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 ... -
Theatre for young audiences and the Commedia dell'arte : the living tradition of the Commedia dell'arte in theatre for young audiences, with specific reference to selected original texts and performances.
(1992)The thesis affirms the relevance of "Theatre for Young Audiences" as a valid and distinctive genre; a performance genre that should entertain, educate and provide meaning in terms of its creative interaction with personal, ... -
The English language television single play in South Africa : a threatened genre, 1976-1991.
(1993)The thesis takes the form of an investigation into the various causes leading to the demise of the English language television single play in South Africa. It does not position the genre within any particular theoretical ... -
The role of "film study" within the English syllabus in White English medium secondary schools in the Transvaal : 1977-1990.
(1993)Prior to 1986, there was no media studies of any type prescribed at secondary schools in the Transvaal. However, individual teachers and schools have recognised the need for children to receive instruction in the media. ...