Browsing Department of English by Subject "Romance"
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"The enemy of the absolute": Women in the early poetry of T.S.ELIOT
(University of Western Cape, 2002)Mathew Arnold's 1867 poem presents romantic love as a condition of permanence that can offer refuge from a changeable world. Sixty years later, however, Virginia Woolf observes that romance has become rare as a subject of ... -
Eros and politics: Love and its discontents in the fiction of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
(University of the Western Cape, 2020)In this study I focus on how Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s fiction portrays his socio-political vision through the prevalence of the intimate relationships it displays. The study critically analyses the significant role romantic ...