Browsing Doctoral Degrees (English, Media and Performance Studies) by Title
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Computer aided techniques for the attribution of Attic black-figure vase-paintings using the Princeton painter as a model.
(2009)Because of their abundance and because of the insight into the ancient world offered by the depictions on their decorated surfaces, Attic painted ceramics are an extremely valuable source of material evidence. Knowing ... -
Creativity or control? : a study of selected Xhosa radio plays in the Apartheid years.
(2011)Although radio drama is a very popular form of the media, it is largely neglected in scholarship. As a result of this, it has been pushed into the periphery of research, thereby diminishing its value in society at large. ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Culture in the public sphere : recovering a tradition of radical cultural-political debate in South Africa, 1938-1960.
(2005)This thesis is concerned with the negotiation of cultural and literary matters in South African public life during the period 1938 to 1960. While I begin with an exploration of the more 'orthodox' or 'academic' traditions ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Forms of community service : Guy Butler's literary contributions.
(2003)Guy Butler (1918-2001) was one of South Africa's most prolific English writers. His work extended across several genres. He has hitherto been seen by his critics in terms of neat binaries: Marxists versus liberals, ... -
"From Jo'burg to Jozi" : a study of the writings and images of Johannesburg from 1980-2003.
(2007)The thesis examines some of the short and long fiction set in Johannesburg, which is published between approximately 1980 and 2003. The thesis examines how the residents viewed themselves, and evaluates the various social ... -
Humour as "cultural reconciliation" in South African situation comedy : an ethnographic study of multicultural female viewers.
(1998)South African women of different ethnicity and background, having lived under apartheid, are now challenged by the freedoms expressed in the Bill of Rights and the new Constitution. This study, identifying the connections ... -
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 ... -
Improvisations of empire : Thomas Pringle in Scotland, the Cape Colony and London, 1789-1834.
(2008)This dissertation offers an extended examination of the writing of the 1820 Scottish settler Thomas Pringle. Though the primary focus of analysis is Pringle's poetry, the dissertation also engages extensively with Pringle's ... -
In the public interest : news values, ethics and the need for a new focus in South African journalism.
(2004)The dramatic transition from South Africa's previous apartheid political system to a democratic dispensation, has posed unique challenges for the media. Ethical practices per se are difficult, with joumalists being faced ... -
The international novel : a study of its origins and emergence as a genre in nineteenth century American fiction.
(1982)No abstract available. -
Interpretation and the /Xam narratives.
(2006)There has, in the last quarter of a century, been an increased interest in the /Xam narratives that form the major part of the nineteenth century archive of materials collected by Lucy Lloyd and Wilhelm Bleek in Cape Town ... -
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.
(1995)No abstract available. -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Magic realism in Zakes Mda's Ways of Dying (1995) and She Plays with the Darkness (1995).
(1998)I shall argue in this thesis that Zakes Mda's novels Ways of Dying (l995a) and She Plays with the Darkness (1995b) are magic realist texts that are representative of the hybrid nature of this literary mode. Furthermore ...