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A study of the presentation of women in the novels of Barbara Pym

Blair, Cairn Fiona (1996-11)

In this dissertation I attempt an evaluation of Barbara Pym as a feminist writer. I study the central protagonists in Pym's twelve novels in the context of British society in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. I have drawn on ...
South African political prison-literature between 1948 and 1990 : the prisoner as writer and political commentator

Booth-Yudelman, Gillian Carol; Yudelman, Gillian Carol Booth- (1997-11)

This thesis examines works written about imprisonment by four South African political prison writers who were incarcerated for political reasons. My Introduction focuses on current research and literature available on ...
Postmodern or post-Catholic? : a study of British Catholic writers and their fictions in a postmodern and postconciliar world

Mitras, Joao Luis (1997-11)

This thesis is an investigation into the nature of the 'postmodern' narrative strategies and fictional methods in the work of two British Catholic writers. The work of David Lodge and Muriel Spark is here taken as an ...
Exploding the lie : 'angelic womanhood' in selected works by Harriet Martineau, Anne Bronte, Charlotte Bronte and George Eliot

Du Plessis, Sandra Elizabeth (1997-11)

Each of these novelists, in her own way, presents a critique of the idealised woman of the nineteenth-century. My aim in this dissertation is to reveal the degree to which each is successful in her mission to 'explode ...
Finishing the hat, where there never was a hat : a critical analysis of the words and music of Stephen Sondheim and their relationship to the development of musical theatre as an art form

Lambert, Josephine Gay (1998-11)

This dissertation develops the premise that, whilst conceding the difficulties inherent in the medium, musical theatre should be regarded as an art form, worthy of serious critical evaluation. This view is supported by ...
From EADHREDIG to GYNG : a feminist re-evaluation of the Legend of St Juliana

Walsh, Arlene (1998-11)

St Juliana is a legendary saint, whose actual existence is most improbable, although relics purportedly existed. The approximate date of her martyrdom is c. 305-310. According to the Bollandist Acta Sanctorum , the facts ...
Responding to student writing : strategies for a distance-teaching context

Spencer, Brenda (1998-11)

Responding to Student Writing: Strategies for a Distance-Teaching Context identifies viable response techniques for a unique discourse community. An overview of paradigmatic shifts in writing and reading theory, 'frameworks ...
An analytical perspective on language learning in adult basic education and training programmes

Vaccarino, Franco Angelo (1999-01)

The Directorate of Adult Education and Training of the national Department of Education views Adult Basic Education and Training (ABET) not merely as literacy, but as the general conceptual foundation towards lifelong ...
Representations of jazz music and jazz performance occasions in selected jazz literature

Titlestad, Michael Frank (1999-04)

The founding hypothesis of the study is that creative writers translate jazz music and performance into discourse by recourse to a number of figurative domains. These translations map existential, anthropological and ...
Narration in the novels of selected nineteenth-century women writers : Jane Austen, The Bronte Sisters, and Elizabeth Gaskell

Townsend, Rosemary (1999-06)

In this studyi apply a feminist-narratological grid to the works under discussion. I show how narration is used as strategy to highlight issues of concern to women, hereby attempting to make a contribution in the ...
The representation of madness in Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace

Kreuiter, Allyson (2000-01)

The central tenet of the study is that language and madness are bound together, language both including madness and perpetuating the exclusion of madness as 'other'. The first chapter considers the representation of ...
Science as narrative : Alan Sokal's critique of postmodernism

Krueger, Anton Robert (2000-01)

Alan Sokal has questioned the postmodern assertion that 'science is ... a "myth'', a "narration" ... a "social construction'" (1998: x). This dissertation examines his reasons for rejecting this allegedly postmodern ...
Cultural nationalism and colonialism in nineteenth-century Irish horror fiction

Glisson, Silas Nease (2000-11)

This thesis will explore how writers of nineteenth-century Irish horror fiction, namely short stories and novels, used their works to express the social, cultural, and political events of the period. My thesis will employ ...
The female voyeur and the possibility of a pornography for women : redefining the gaze of desire

Schroeder, Kathleen Mary (University of South Africa, 2000-11)

Please consult the full text version of the thesis for the abstract.
Effects of English as medium of instruction on pupils' academic achievement in social studies in primary schools in Malawi

Mchazime, Hartford Skaliot (2001)

The current language policy in education in Malawi allows pupils to be taught through local languages form Standard 1 to 4 and through English from Standard 5 upwards. However, classroom observation suggets that teachers ...
The how of a pedagogy of multiliteracies : designing social futures as an approach to the teaching of the Drum short stories

Latha, Rizwana Habib (Rand Afrikaans University, 2001)

This article focusses on the how of A pedagogy of multiliteracies: designing social futures , devised by The New London Group, as an approach to the teaching of The Drum Decade: stories from the 1950 s edited by Michael ...
The modernization of redness

Lloyd, David (Unisa Press, 2001)

Mda's novels develop his critique of black society and governance, from the campaigning of political parties in 1994 to the established black rule in the late 1990s and 2000. However, the suffering of the poor and the ...
Diary of an African journey : the return of Rider Haggard

Llloyd, David (Unisa Press, 2001)

Rider Haggard is best known for his colonial adventure stories, King Solomon's Mines, Alan Quatermain and She, that are widely held to have reinforced the values that promoted British imperialism in the late Victorian ...
The representation and aestheticisation of violence

Thompson, Allan Campbell (2001-01)

An act of violence, be it personal or institution is an event that would distress most witnesses. Yet the representation of violent acts in fictional forms as literature, drama and film often aestheticises that violence, ...
Crossing boundaries : gender and genre dislocations in selected texts by Samuel R. Delany

Hope, Gerhard Ewoud (2001-02)

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 ...

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