Browsing Masters Degrees (Languages & Literature) by Title
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Exploring the role of gender in the depiction of Utopia in selected novels.
(2015)Abstract available in print version. -
Étude comparative sur le rôle de la langue et du lieu dans les œuvres autofictionnelles de deux auteures postcoloniales, Nina Bouraoui et Marita van der Vyver.
(2018)This dissertation compares and contrasts Nina Bouraoui and Marita van der Vyver, exploring the role of language and place in their quest for identity and a feeling of belonging. It provides three key theoretical insights ... -
Fabricated honesty: an original collection of poems, including a critical examination of the impact of twentieth century confessional poetry on my writing.
(2018)This dissertation consists of two sections: a creative section and a theoretical section. The first section of this paper will be the creative section which consists of a collection of 40 original poems that can be generally ... -
Interculturalité et pluriculturalité en classe de FLE : Une analyse du corpus littéraire du curriculum actuel des bacheliers de l’IEB.
(2019)Ce projet est né en premier lieu de mon intérêt dans le domaine du FLE et de la littérature française, et mes expériences comme enseignante et tutrice du français. Pendant mes études à l’université, j’ai donné des cours ... -
An investigation into the factors exerting a subtractive influence on Telegu and its culture.
(2005)In this study, I investigate the sociolinguistic factors that exert a subtractive influence on the Telugu language and Andhra culture. This study focuses on the sociolinguistic features of the Telugu Community and Telugu ... -
Kossi-Komla-Ebri : an African voice in Italian contemporary literature.
(2008)The early eighties saw Italy become a landing bay for thousands of immigrants who abandoned their homes in search of a better life. Almost immediately, Italian academics highlighted the importance of this new phenomenon ... -
La réécriture de l'histoire du Rwanda à travers la littérature post-génocide. Etude de cas de trois romans africains d'expression francaise.
(2012)After the Rwandan genocide in 1994 which irrefutably imposed itself as a reference in history, many books (researches and fiction) were published exposing varied opinions and views. It is an important source which is studied ... -
Les perceptions de l'impact de la grammaire enseignée par l'approchefonctionnelle aux étudiants de la première année de l'Université de KwaZulu-Natal, campus de Pietermaritzburg.
(2014)La relation de l’Afrique du Sud dans la communauté internationale a besoins de l’enseignement qui lui donnera la capacité de communiquer en français. Dans le but de réaliser cet objectif, on constate que dans son enseignement ... -
Liberating the potential of Kenyan women in Margaret Ogola's novels.
The research in this dissertation examines Margaret Ogola’s portrayal of female characters in three of her four novels, namely: The River and the Source, I Swear by Apollo and Place of Destiny. The main argument in this ... -
Linking private and public personal and political transition in Sindiwe Magona's forced to grow.
(2004)No abstract available. -
Making the journey : the female Bildungsroman and quest motifs in selected Margaret Atwood texts.
(2015)The research presented in this dissertation examines, from a gender studies approach, the genre of the female Bildungsroman and the representation of quest motifs in three primary texts selected from the oeuvre of Margaret ... -
Mise Eire : national and personal identity in two recent Irish memoirs.
(2001)Chapter One will outline the way I will be using the constructs of "national" and "personal" identity, and will then move on to provide a brief contextual setting for the creation and importance of certain literary ... -
On the syntax of derived nominals in English and Greek.
(2009)This study exammes different approaches to analysing the syntactic derivation of nouns from verbs within the theoretical framework of Principles and Parameters (PP phrases by presenting a contrastive study of English and ... -
The opaqueness of chinese compounds : in search of conceptual motivations underlying traditional exocentric compounds and contemporary neologisms in Chinese.
(2011)AIM The aim of this study is to investigate the opacity of Chinese compounds in search of conceptual motivations for traditional exocentric compounds and contemporary neologisms in Chinese. METHODOLOGY This research ... -
People out of place : emotional geography, postmodern identity and gender in three contemporary Japanese texts.
(2015)This dissertation examines contemporary Japanese notions of place, gender and identity as discussed in three texts by Japanese and Japanese-descended authors. The texts under examination include Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s film ... -
Representation of disability in isiZulu works.
(2017)This research seeks to analyse the representation of disability in isiZulu literary works such as novels, drama, short stories, and poems. It identifies the types and causes of disability as portrayed in isiZulu literary ... -
The rhythmo-melodic Geste as agent of spiritual communion and/or affirmation of identity : an investigation into the performance of selected tamil and zulu marriage rituals and ceremonies in South Africa.
(2002)This study examines the similarities and differences between the historical background and the current performance of Tamil and traditional Zulu marriages. After presenting an account of the historical development of ... -
Ruimte en identiteit na aanleiding van D.J. Opperman se digbundel, Komas uit 'n bamboesstok (1979) = Space and identity pertaining to D.J. Opperman's volume of poetry, "Komas uit 'n bamboesstok" (1979).
(2013)Hierdie studie is ʼn ondersoek na die rol wat ruimte en identiteit speel in D.J. Opperman se digbundel Komas uit ʼn bamboesstok (1979). Die studie maak gebruik van ʼn kommunikatiewe benadering wat die leser in staat stel om ... -
Selective translations of Rachida Saqi's "Marochaines en male-vie".
(2001)My selection from Rachida Saqi's "novel" "Marocaines en male-vie" consists of a series of vignettes or sketches of Moroccan women and the difficulties they have to endure, some of which are unfamiliar to non-Muslim readers. ... -
Stages on pages : a comparative study of Pieter-Dirk Uys' one man shows as an autobiographical alternative to memoir.
(2011)In this dissertation I seek to analyse the use of autobiographical monologues and elements in selected scenes from the political revues Foreign Aids (2001) and Elections and Erections (2009) by South African playwright-performer ...