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Playing with time: the relationship between theatrical timeframe, dramatic narrative and character development in the plays of Alan Ayckbourn
(University of the Western Cape, 2006)
Alan Ayckbourn claims that he has always been facinated by time as an aid to dramatic story telling. The thesis examined how Ayckbourn manipulates the dramatic timeframe, often in an unconventional manner, as a device to ...
Parodic imagination and resistant form in historical fiction: A study of Ann Harries' manly pursuits
(University of the Western Cape, 2007)
In this dissertation, the author examines the historical novel Manly pursuits (1999), by Ann Harries. The novel deals with the late nineteenth century in Oxford, England, and inparticular the year 1899 in Cape Town. The ...
Childhoods dis-ordered: Non-realist narrative modes in selected post-2000 West African war novels
(University of the Western Cape, 2017)
This study explores how selected West African war novels employ non-realist narrative
modes to portray disruptions in the child’s development into adulthood. The novels considered are
Chris Abani’s Song for Night (2007), ...
Aspects of narration and voice in Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God
(The University of the Western Cape, 2017)
Zora Neale Hurston is a significant figure in American fiction and is strongly associated with
the Harlem Renaissance, the period noted for the emergence of literature by people of
African-American descent. Hurston worked ...
I am not a colour: A novella
(University of the Western Cape, 2018)
Nobathembu lifts her hand and waves at her neighbour. She is watering spinach in her garden
with a jug from a bucket. At age sixty-nine, her beauty shines. The sun is high on the echoes of
Nyanga village – echoes of ...
Under the Hibiscus: An eco-critical reading of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s postcolonial novels
(University of the Western Cape, 2019)
literature, music and culture”. As this statement suggests, ecocriticism is concerned with more than the representation of environmental questions in literature. It provides a way of examining the intersections and ...
Cinematic and photographic aesthetics in the novels of J.M. Coetzee
(The University of the Western Cape, 2017)
This thesis will examine the extensive cinematic and photographic visuality inscribed in the
fictions of J. M. Coetzee. Coetzee's prose is inflected by a complex intermediality that
references media aesthetics, practices, ...
What lies beneath tutors' feedback? Examining the role of feedback in developing 'knowers' in English studies
(The University of the Western Cape, 2017)
Feedback plays an important role in student learning and development in higher
education. However, for various reasons, it is often not as effective as it should be. Many studies
have attempted to ‘solve’ the feedback ...
Visklippie and other Cape Town stories
(University of the Western Cape, 2016)
Visklippie and other Cape Town stories is a collection of short stories, inspired by my
experiences having grown up in the 1960s and 1970s in Cape Town. This is a fictional work
that, however, uses memory and oral history ...
The jewelled net: Towards a Southern African theory/ practice of environmental literacy
(University of the Western Cape, 1999)
This thesis suggests that there is an urgent need for academic work in literary and
cultural studies to become more responsive to the contemporary eco-social crisis of environment and
development. Questioning the ...