Although initially dismissed as superficial, Harold Pinter’s Betrayal, Tom Stoppard’s The Real Thing, and Patrick Marber’s Closer use the theme of marital betrayal as a trope to investigate metatheatrical and epistemological ...
My dissertation focuses on an analysis of postmodern narrative
strategies in Milan Kundera's The Unbearable Lightness of Being
(ULB) and The Book of Laughter and Forgetting ( BLF) . By
analysing the postmodern ab/use ...
The structure of an education system and its curricula reflects the influence of a specific
paradigm. Since the onset of colonial rule and apartheid in South Africa about
everything in the South African society, including ...
This research focuses on the personal stories surrounding men who were sexually abused
in childhood. The aim of this study is to shed light on the experiences of these men, and
attempt to lift the veil of secrecy and ...
This dissertation explores the integration of Buddhism and the practice of mindfulness into Western psychotherapy, starting with a sketch of the cultural and historical factors that shaped the beginnings of these institutions, ...
The 'postmodern challenge' is increasingly felt in the 'end of modernity' to which Gianni Vattimo refers. The West and the world has hitherto been dominated by what Andrew Gamble characterises as the Modern or Western ...
This research investigated the ability of employees to survive experiences of major career changes and how they managed to build career resilience during the process. Adopting an action research approach, it continues to ...
Children detained in juvenile detention centers in the United States are a unique population.
They are neither incarcerated, nor are they free to live in society. Although some popular literature does exist on juvenile ...
Bipolar mood disorder has been traditionally researched, explored, and explained from a modernistic, psychiatric perspective. The purpose of this study is to explicate an alternative description for bipolar mood disorder, ...
This thesis explores the significance of contemporary Christian spirituality for authentic Christian ministry. To this end an extensive survey of contemporary academic literature is conducted. The research bears in mind ...
The impact of stranger rape on the victim and those close to the victim is widely researched. However,
little data is available on couples’ experiences of stranger rape and their relationships in the aftermath
of such ...
The prevalence of divorce within society is reflected in the rising divorce rate worldwide. Consequently, divorce has become more accepted, although adolescents from divorced families are considered at risk for maladjustment. ...
This dissertation offers an examination of Delany's critical trajectory from
structuralism to poststructuralism and postmodernism across a gamut of
genres from SF to sword-and-sorcery, pornography, autobiography and
literary ...
The constituent concepts of theology, also practical theology and counselling, have lost much of their previously precise meaning, also by virtue of the growing confusion surrounding what counts as counselling and theology. ...
Stepfamilies are shown by existing research as having multiple problems unique to this type of
family, some of which include role ambiguity, role strain, role captivity, increased stress and
adjustment problems in ...
This study examines the ways in which museums and memorials within South
African society commemorate events of the past. Various examples of
museums and memorials are chosen and identified according to the ways in
which ...
HIV/Aids is a worldwide pandemic and as South Africans we are at the epicentre of this global health crisis. The harrowing statistics are useful as a means to quantify a horrific situation; however, what these facts do not ...
This article analyses how the poststructuralist deconstruction of fixed knowledge and universal experiences,
presents itself in two opposing ethical positions in postmodernist art and culture. On the one
hand the ...
Die verhaal wat hier vertel word is die van 'n jongeling wat sy ouerhuis verlaat om vir homself te sorg. Dit is die verhaal van die postmodernistiese wetenskaplike wat na 'n tydperk van modernistiese adolessensie moet ...
The cultural paradigm shift from modernism to postmodernism offers challenges and opportunities to the church to develop pastoral practises that address the changing needs of members of congregations.
In my research I ...