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An exploration of reader response to and social identification with Grade 12 prescribed poetry
(University of the Western Cape, 2019)
The thesis offers insight into English literature studies as taught at high school level to Grade
12 learners, employing Louise Rosenblatt’s reader response theory to explore and understand
their encounter and engagement ...
Between text and stage: the theatrical adaptations of J.M. Coetzee's Foe
(University of the Western Cape, 2016)
This thesis will critically analyse two theatrical adaptations of J. M. Coetzee's Foe (1986). Primarily, this thesis will be seeking to understand the complex relationship of the primary text to its adaptations more closely, ...
Seeking identity between worlds: A study of selected Chinese American fiction
(University of the Western Cape, 2011)
The literature of the Chinese diaspora in America is marked by a tension between
ancestral Chinese traditional culture and the modernity of Western culture. This thesis explores diaspora theory, as elaborated by Stuart ...
Blood, race and the construction of 'the coloured' in Sarah Gertrude Millin's God's Stepchildren
(University of the Western Cape, 2011)
In this paper I attempt to look critically at the literary construction of one particular 'race', namely the 'Coloureds', in Sarah Gertrude Millin's God's Stepchildren. To this end, the paper draws on the historical ...
Female identity and landscape in Ann Radcliffe's Gothic Novels
(University of the Western Cape, 2008)
The purpose of this dissertation is to chart the development of an ambivalent female identity in the Gothic genre, as exemplified by Ann Radcliffe's late eighteenth century fictions. The thesis examines the social and ...
Reading representations of the African Child in select contemporary films
(University of the Western Cape, 2014)
Framed by theories of childhood, psychoanalysis, postcolonial theory, trauma theory, film theory, and literary theory, this thesis investigates representations of the African child in three contemporary films about Africa. ...
The idea of the hero in Jane Austen’s Pride And Prejudice
(University of the Western Cape, 2015)
In this thesis I focus on the ways I believe Jane Austen re-imagines the idea of the hero. In popular fiction of her time, such as Samuel Richardson’s Sir Charles Grandison (1753), what we had as a hero figure served as a ...
Shelleyan monsters: the figure of Percy Shelley in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Peter Ackroyd’s The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein
(University of the Western Cape, 2015)
This thesis will examine the representation of the figure of Percy Shelley in the text of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818). My hypothesis is that Percy Shelley represents to Mary Shelley a figure who embodies the contrasting ...
Gendered positions in a church youth group: a discourse analysis
(2012)
This research is a discourse analysis of a Christian ‗coloured‘ youth group, from the area of Mitchell‘s Plain, Cape Town. The aim of the analysis is to explore the ways in which the interlocutors construct their identities ...
Introspection, female consciousness and the quiet revolution in the novels of Nawal El Saadawi and Mariama Bâ
(University of the Western Cape, 2012)
This thesis considers introspection and female consciousness in the novels Woman At Point Zero and Two Women In One by Nawal El Saadawi, an Egyptian writer and So Long A Letter and Scarlet Song by Mariama Bâ, a Senegalese ...