Browsing Faculty of Arts by Author "Field, Roger"
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Alex La Guma’s short stories in relation to A Walk in the Night: A socio-political and literary analysis
Ntaganira, Vincent (University of the Western Cape, 2005)The minithesis provides a detailed socio-political and literary analysis of A Walk in the Night: Seven stories from the streets of Cape Town. It investigates and systematically compares each short story to the novella or ... -
Out of place: a re-evaluation of the poetry of Dennis Brutus
August, Tyrone Russel (University of the Western Cape, 2014)The main aim of my dissertation is to re-evaluate the poetry of the South African writer Dennis Brutus (1924-2009). Even though he produced a substantial number of poems over more than half a century, his work continues ... -
Shadows, faces and echoes of an African war: The Rhodesian bush war through the eyes of Chas Lotter – soldier poet
Hagemann, Michael Eric (University of the Western Cape, 2016)Poetry that is rooted in that most extreme of human experiences, war, continues to grip the public imagination. When the poetry under scrutiny comes from the "losing side" in a colonial war of liberation, important moral ... -
Taboo topics in fiction: The case of Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita
Brevis, Chad (University of the Western Cape, 2014)An important aspect of my thesis is the discussion of the various narrators in the novel; Vladimir Nabokov, John Ray Jnr. and Humbert Humbert. The novel, or Humbert’s memoirs, is only published after Lolita has died in ...