Browsing Doctoral Degrees (English, Media and Performance Studies) by Title
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R.K. Narayan's Malgudi novels : a critical study of theme and character.
(1995)This thesis analyses critically theme and character in the fourteen novels of R.K. Narayan, written between 1935 and 1990, and it assesses their importance in Narayan's Indian world view. It evaluates Narayan's depiction ... -
Recovered from obscurity : "structures of feeling" and discourses of identity and power relations through the peripheral characters in the novels of Charles Dickens.
(2011)Many of Charles Dickens‟s peripheral characters have not received critical attention through a de-centered reading in a single, unified body of work. For reasons which are related largely to his biography, Dickens had a ... -
The role of computer games and social constructivism in skills development of learners from different educational backgrounds.
(2005)This study is positioned within a specific South African context where many learners not only lack access to resources but are considered underprepared and therefore are seen as academically disadvantaged. Research findings ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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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Some aspects of the dynamic process of creativity with special reference to the choreographer and director in the theatre.
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The space between : contemporary opera and the novel : a study in metaphrasis.
(1994)The process of metaphrasis denotes the translation of a work of art from one medium into another. Opera is fundamentally an adaptive art form and contemporary opera has increasingly turned to the novel as the sophistication ... -
Space, body and subjectivity : shifting conceptions of black African masculinities in four audio-visual texts.
(2010)Research in constructions of masculinities in South Africa is already an established field, having in part developed out of the need to contextualise global theories in the social, economic and cultural realities of ... -
Staging empowerment? An investigation into participation and development in HIV and AIDS theatre projects.
(2010)This thesis is an exploration of contemporary practice in the field of theatre for development as HIV and AIDS communication. The thesis explores the theoretical fields of communication for development, entertainment ... -
States of nomadism, conditions of diaspora : studies in writing between South Africa and the United States, 1913-1936.
(2008)Using the theoretical idea of ‘writing between’ to describe the condition of the travelling subject, this study attempts to chart some of the literary, intellectual and cultural connections that exist(ed) between black ... -
Stranger in your midst : a study of South African women's poetry in English.
(1993)This thesis represents the first extended study of South African poetry in English from a gender perspective. It is conceived in two parts: firstly, a deconstructive analysis of the dominant tradition of South African ... -
Studies in structure : an analysis of four of the novels of George Eliot.
(1973)No abstract available. -
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, ... -
Theorizing discourses of Zimbabwe, 1860-1900 : a Foucauldian analysis of colonial narratives.
(1998)This study seeks to understand colonial narratives of Zimbabwe 1860-1900 as a locus of transgression and opposition. I investigate the range and complexity of discourses within the imperial project open to both European male ... -
Voices in a university : a critical exploration of black students' responses to institutional discourse.
(1998)The context for this study is the period leading up to and the four years since the first democratic elections in South Africa in 1994. It is a critical exploration of black students' responses to university discourses as ...