The study sought to examine first year students‟ conceptions of writing and the extent to which these conceptions influence their academic writing; explore tutors‟ expectations and understandings of student writing and how ...
The hero is a key archetype in Western culture. However, the hero has almost invariably been male, with associated traits deemed “masculine” within the gender binary. Feminists have begun to rigorously interrogate this ...
Foundation Programme (FP) students at the University of Namibia (UNAM) Oshakati Campus display inadequate academic writing abilities. As their aim is to gain admittance to UNAM main campus science-related courses, it is ...
This study aims to interrogate the representations of forgiveness in post genocide Rwandan fiction. The novels analysed are Inyenzi: A story of Love and Genocide (2007), Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan ...
Beginning with Plato's expulsion of the poets in the Republic, this dissertation
looks at the often hostile, yet also symbiotic, relationship between poetry and
philosophy. Aristotle's 'response' to Plato is regarded as ...
The dissertation "And the Sea looked : a novel in the
making" is an exploration of the creative process of
a prose fiction novel called „And the Sea Looked‟.
Following the lives of three women, the novel
reflects on ...
And the Word Was Made Flesh: Anthropomorphism in the poetry of WH Auden examines the reasons for the neglect of Auden’s prolific deployment of anthropomorphism by examining the poetry’s critical reception with a view to ...
This dissertation investigates Aristotle’s theory of phantasia as a cognitive
ability, in terms of which mental content is available to the mind of rational
beings. The focus is on Catherine Osborne’s extension of phantasia ...
Triomf explores the distortion of the national Afrikaner identity as a result of apartheid. This
dissertation aims to demonstrate how van Niekerk deconstructs the Afrikaner through myths,
stories, symbols, intertextuality ...
The dissertation is based on Hardy's representation of Victorian working-class women's experience, exemplified by the heroine of Tess of the D'Urbervilles (1891), in the radically gendered nineteenth-century society. ...
Toni Morrison reinterprets and reconstitutes American history by placing the lives, stories and experiences of African Americans in a position of centrality, while relegating white American history and cultural traditions ...
This dissertation examines how three dystopian texts, namely Aldous Huxley’s Brave New
World, Jasper Fforde’s Shades of Grey and Veronica Roth’s Divergent trilogy, exhibit social
conformity as a disciplinary mechanism ...
The changing social consciousness in South Africa during the twentieth century falls within a
political-historical framework of events: amongst others, World Wars I and II; the institution of the
Apartheid Laws in 1948; ...
This study explores classroom language practices of English Second Language (ESL) teachers in three primary schools in the Oshana Educational Region of Namibia; one urban school and two rural schools. This qualitative study ...
This study compared cohesive devices in texts written by Japanese second-year junior high school learners with those in texts that appeared in the textbook they were studying. The purpose of the study was to determine which ...
This dissertation examines selected love lyrics composed during the 1930s by Cole Porter, whose witty and urbane music epitomized the Golden era of American light music. These lyrics present an interesting paradox – a man ...
This study sets out to answer the call for explicit instruction in critical thinking for ELL.
Using action research and qualitative methodology, I examine the effect of implementing the
cognitive apprenticeship paradigm ...
Without consciousness we become victim instead of actors- even if it is only a question of acting victims. And in the make belief of our lives, the audience is self (Fugard in Frank 2004: 53). The primary concern of this ...
This study examines the conditions for successful online mentoring in
order to develop writing skills in English in a workplace setting.
Chapter 1 gives the background and context of the study. Problems to be
addressed ...
This dissertation explores the ambiguous nature of the social criticism in Charlotte Brontë’s novels — Jane Eyre, Shirley, Villette and The Professor — particularly pertaining to patriarchal ideology and its associated ...