Browsing Doctoral Degrees (English, Media and Performance Studies) by Issue Date
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Studies in structure : an analysis of four of the novels of George Eliot.
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A new species of writing : a study of the novels of Samuel Richardson.
(1978)No abstract available. -
Some aspects of the dynamic process of creativity with special reference to the choreographer and director in the theatre.
(1979)No abstract available. -
The international novel : a study of its origins and emergence as a genre in nineteenth century American fiction.
(1982)No abstract available. -
Myth in the novels of Herman Melville.
(1984)Myth in the Novels of Herman Melville: A Study of the Functions of the Myths of Eden, the Golden Age, and Hero and Dragon in Three Novels of Herman Melville--Typee, Moby-Dick, and Billy Budd, Sailor. In Typee, Melville ... -
A critical study of Olive Schreiner's fiction in a historical and biographical context.
(1985)Olive Schreiner's fiction is best understood in the context of her colonial situation : she experienced central Victorian spiritual dilemmas and social constrictions, but refracted through a rural colonial culture. A ... -
Explorations in drama, theatre and education : a critique of theatre studies in South Africa.
(1987)This dissertation explores the potential of theatre studies to develop a pragmatic and relevant pedagogy for South African students and adults. The contention is that the dominant paradigm as conceptualized in the discipline ... -
Performance polemics in a plural society : South African theatre in transition.
(1988)"It was clearly the Government (by a great section of the electorate) that brought politics into the theatre, and we, the producers, the actors, the theatre-goers must pay the price for it." Alan Paton. This thesis ... -
The immanent voice: an aspect of unreliable homodiegetic narration.
(1988)Unreliable homodiegetic narration presents a unique mode of narrative transmission which demands the encoding within the text of 'translational indices', that is, signifiers of several kinds which justify the reader/receiver ... -
A critical commentary on the Four quartets of T.S. Eliot.
(1989)This sequential reading of Four Quartets attends closely to form, rhythm, image, idea, syntax, tone, and mood, examining the relations of one to another and of one part of the cycle to another. It draws on earlier studies ... -
Theatre for young audiences and the Commedia dell'arte : the living tradition of the Commedia dell'arte in theatre for young audiences, with specific reference to selected original texts and performances.
(1992)The thesis affirms the relevance of "Theatre for Young Audiences" as a valid and distinctive genre; a performance genre that should entertain, educate and provide meaning in terms of its creative interaction with personal, ... -
The silence at the interface : culture and narrative in selected twentieth-century Southern African novels in English.
(1992)The primary intention of this study is to establish the theoretical significance of silence within the sphere of the twentieth-century Southern African novel in English. Clearly a feature of recent writing, silence is ... -
The English language television single play in South Africa : a threatened genre, 1976-1991.
(1993)The thesis takes the form of an investigation into the various causes leading to the demise of the English language television single play in South Africa. It does not position the genre within any particular theoretical ... -
Stranger in your midst : a study of South African women's poetry in English.
(1993)This thesis represents the first extended study of South African poetry in English from a gender perspective. It is conceived in two parts: firstly, a deconstructive analysis of the dominant tradition of South African ... -
The playwright-performer as scourge and benefactor : an examination of political satire and lampoon in South African theatre, with particular reference to Pieter-Dirk Uys.
(1993)During the 1970s the plays of Pieter-Dirk Uys became causes celebres. In the 1980s he was, commercially and artistically, arguably the most successful South African satirist. By 1990 he had gained recognition in the ... -
Sad relicks and apt admonishments: Wordsworth's depiction of the poor in his work dating from the 1790s to 1807.
(1994)The aim of this thesis is to show, by means of a chronological study of poverty as treated in the poetry dating from the early 1790's to 1807, that Wordsworth's treatment of this topic was both highly politicized and ... -
Self, life and writing in selected South African autobiographical texts.
(1994)Autobiographical writing acquired increasing importance during the apartheid period, with greater numbers of autobiographical texts being published by a more representative range of South Africans across race, class and ... -
The space between : contemporary opera and the novel : a study in metaphrasis.
(1994)The process of metaphrasis denotes the translation of a work of art from one medium into another. Opera is fundamentally an adaptive art form and contemporary opera has increasingly turned to the novel as the sophistication ...