Browsing Magister Artium - MA (English) by Author "Faculty of Arts"
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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 ... -
Developing first year part-time students academic competencies in an academic literacy module
Chu, Fidelis Ewe (University of the Western Cape, 2010)The research findings are grouped according to the three themes identified which includes the relevance of the module, the effectiveness of the teaching and learning approaches and methods, and the integration of generic ... -
Flying in the face of convention: The heart of redness as rehabilitative of the South African pastoral literary tradition through the frame of universal myth
Jacobs, Anthony Richard (University of the Western Cape, 2005)This thesis analyzed Zakes Mda's The Heart of redness in the tradition of South African pastoral and counter-pastoral. It proposed that the novel is a hybrid of both African and European tradition and perspectives. It ... -
Humour as a postcolonial strategy in Zakes Mda's novel, The heart of redness
Hagemann, Michael Eric (University of the Western Cape, 2005)This thesis sought to demonstrate that humour and the grotesque are the primary tools by which Mda achieve his postcolonial strategies of "writing back" that is, of asserting an identity in the face of colonial ... -
An investigation of the potential role that folklore can play in environmental education: a case study of Mphoko
Ramaila, Ziphora Mmabatho (University of the Western Cape, 2005)This thesis investigated the role that folklore can play in contemporary environmental problems. This research was prompted by people living around the Mantrombi nature reserve in the Nebo region of Limpopo province who ... -
Narratives of assessment: the newsletter as case study
Scheepers, Jacqueline Norma (University of the Western Cape, 2005)The purpose of this thesis was to evaluate success of an integrated newsletter assignment for first year Human Resource Management students as an authentic and meaningful form of assessment by tracing and deciphering the ... -
Negotiating coloured identity through encounters with performance
Fransman, Gino (University of the Western Cape, 2005)In this study the theatre as staged performance and as text was used as exploratory and discursive tools to investigate the negotiation of identities. The aim was to explore this theme by examining the responses to four ... -
Parodic imagination and resistant form in historical fiction: A study of Ann Harries' manly pursuits
Bavasah, Tessa (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 ... -
Playing with time: the relationship between theatrical timeframe, dramatic narrative and character development in the plays of Alan Ayckbourn
Vokes, Elizabeth (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 ... -
The representation of women in four of Naguib Mahfouz's realist novels: Palace walk, Palace of desire, Sugar street and Midaq alley
Oersen, Sheridene Barbara (University of the Western Cape, 2005)This thesis involved the various discourses around Egyptian novelist Naguib Mahfouz's representation of women in four of his most well-known novels, which were originally written in Arabic. At the one extreme, he is described ... -
The valley trilogy: a reading of C. Loius Leipoldt's English-language fiction circa 1925-1935
Oppelt, Riaan (University of the Western Cape, 2007)Louis Leipoldt is known as a canonical figure in the history of Afrikaans poetry, He is customarily included in the pantheon of writers such as C.J. Langenhoven who not only established Afrikaans as a standardized national ...