Browsing Doctoral Degrees (English, Media and Performance Studies) by Title
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African Jerusalem : the vision of Robert Grendon.
(2007)This thesis discovers the spiritual and aesthetic vision of poet-journalist Robert Grendon (c. 1867–1949), a man of Irish-Herero parentage. It situates him in the wider Swedenborgian discourse regarding African ‘regeneration’. ... -
An analysis of racial stereotyping in SABC-TV commercials in the context of reform, 1978-1992.
(1998)This thesis uses racial stereotyping as a critical approach to the analysis of television advertising commercials broadcast by the SABC during the period of Reform in South Africa, 1978-1992. Due respect is given to ... -
An analysis of students' responses to ABC & VCT messages at three universities in KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa.
(2008)The high levels of HIV prevalence amongst young people in several sub-Saharan African countries, in spite of massive HIV prevention interventions, has prompted calls to investigate the contextual factors that drive the ... -
Andries Botha : creativity in a context of change.
(2009)In this text I consider Andries Botha's work over the period 1977 to 2007. I particularly look at Botha's creative response to the period of change in which he has worked and at his own considerations of works of art as ... -
Are Africa's development failures due to cultural irrationality or the manner of development? : towards a theory of sustainable community development through communication.
(1999)This study is an analysis of the implications of the manner of development, decision making and communication therein on Africa's development performance since the 1950s. It sought to establish the causes of development ... -
Autobiography of bone : an original cycle of dramatic poems researching the problematics of reconceptualisation of the formal boundaries between the genres of poetry and drama.
(2010)Autobiography of Bone consists of a cycle of original dramatic poems and short poetic dramas which investigate the problematics of a reconceptualisation of the genre-based distinctions between poetry and drama. The work ... -
Beyond the biopic an exploration into the nature of biography through the medium of film.
(2017)This research deals with the process of writing a biographical screenplay which sheds light and insight into the life of Mary Wollstonecraft, the eighteenth-century writer of ground-breaking works such as A Vindication on ... -
Challenging patriarchal normativity: Southern African women writers’ constructions of women’s concerns, needs, changing identities, agency and solidarity.
(2021)This thesis explores literary representations of African women challenging the oppressiveness of patriarchal normativity that has and continues to undermine and destroy the quality of women’s lives the world over, by ... -
Computer aided techniques for the attribution of Attic black-figure vase-paintings using the Princeton painter as a model.
(2009)Because of their abundance and because of the insight into the ancient world offered by the depictions on their decorated surfaces, Attic painted ceramics are an extremely valuable source of material evidence. Knowing ... -
Creativity or control? : a study of selected Xhosa radio plays in the Apartheid years.
(2011)Although radio drama is a very popular form of the media, it is largely neglected in scholarship. As a result of this, it has been pushed into the periphery of research, thereby diminishing its value in society at large. ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
A critique of the representation of women and land in postcolonial Zimbabwe fictional literature.
This research explores the representation of women and land in postcolonial Zimbabwean fictional literature, through examining the extent to which Zimbabwean literary writers deal with the challenges of women’s access to ... -
Culture in the public sphere : recovering a tradition of radical cultural-political debate in South Africa, 1938-1960.
(2005)This thesis is concerned with the negotiation of cultural and literary matters in South African public life during the period 1938 to 1960. While I begin with an exploration of the more 'orthodox' or 'academic' traditions ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Forms of community service : Guy Butler's literary contributions.
(2003)Guy Butler (1918-2001) was one of South Africa's most prolific English writers. His work extended across several genres. He has hitherto been seen by his critics in terms of neat binaries: Marxists versus liberals, ... -
"From Jo'burg to Jozi" : a study of the writings and images of Johannesburg from 1980-2003.
(2007)The thesis examines some of the short and long fiction set in Johannesburg, which is published between approximately 1980 and 2003. The thesis examines how the residents viewed themselves, and evaluates the various social ... -
Humour as "cultural reconciliation" in South African situation comedy : an ethnographic study of multicultural female viewers.
(1998)South African women of different ethnicity and background, having lived under apartheid, are now challenged by the freedoms expressed in the Bill of Rights and the new Constitution. This study, identifying the connections ... -
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 ...