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Showing 1 to 20 of 576 for “"Department of English Language and Literature"”.
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‘Synge we now alle and sum’: three Fifteenth-Century collections of communal song: a study of British Library, Sloane MS 2593; Bodleian Library, MS Eng. poet. e.1; and St John’s College, Cambridge, MS S.54
… MS 2593, Bodleian Library, MS Eng. poet. e.1, and St John’s College, Cambridge, MS S.54 are compact collections of song lyrics written during the fifteenth century, largely without notation. My thesis seeks to develop responsive ways of reading these anthologies and uses the manuscripts to …
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An investigation into the relationship between the educational context and the written product of university EFL students with implications for the teaching of writing
This study investigates the sources of difficulties that Damascus University learners face in their composition writing courses at the Department of English Language and Literature. The research is carried out through a longitudinal study of both the context and the product of writing across a four …
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Portefeulje, Witskrif ; Essay, Die representasie van stilte in poësie
The objective of the essay is to examine the meaning and content in the white space or iconic white in poetry, with specific reference to the representation of silence. The investigation focuses on the existence of a universal distinguishing white grammar with poets, as it manifests in their …
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"Power always goes on and on" : the limits of masculinity in Marabou Stork Nightmares and Fight Club
… study is an attempt to trace the construction and performance of violent masculinity. In this thesis I argue that a particular form of violent masculine identity emerges from within a hegemonic structure of gender relations. I employ two popular, contemporary novels, Chuck Palahniuk's Fight …
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Legitimising language : 9/11 and liberal democracy
… across the world, most notably by occupying Iraq and Afghanistan. This they have done under the banner of spreading liberal democracy to oppressed peoples in far off places, arguing that their actions represent asense of moral clarity and are necessary if the world is going to be safe from evil. …
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The Language of Love and Desire: Convention, Affect, and Intimacy in the Contemporary Romance
Contemporary romance is a genre which is often denigrated to the realm of popular fiction or “chick-lit”. However, contemporary romance is in dialogue with a much older tradition, and it serves a purpose beyond mere entertainment. In this dissertation, I analyse four works of contemporary romance …
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Assuming the female part : a critique of discourses of bodily normalcy
… that discourses which utilise a stable notion of womanhood inevitably exclude some by the very boundedness of their definitions. Such definitions are premised by a notion of gendered normativity, and are often implicit and unconsciously evoked. Principally, I addess the reductive conflation of …
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Fifty three poems
This collection is the result of an exciting approach to the study of creative writing by an academic institution. The opportunity to obtain a Masters Degree for the writing of poetry helped to energise my efforts to put together fifty-three new and unpublished poems. The poems are universal in …
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Ideas of Wallace Stevens : Fredric Jameson's view of the poet
… focuses upon Fredric Jameson's essay 'Exoticism and Structuralism in Wallace Stevens', which concerns the American poet's writings and their relevance to contemporary culture. ... This paper ultimately supports Fredric Jameson's assertion that Stevens cultivated a style that favours impersonality …
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Invisible landscapes : landscape, memory and time in W.G. Sebald's Austerlitz
The eponymous protagonist of Austerlitz, W.G. Sebald's final prose novel, is haunted by landscapes of loss. Both Austerlitz and the narrator are acutely aware of the signs of destruction and of the invisible histories of loss in the landscapes through which they travel. Through the gaze of both …
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The sun also rises
This is an adaptation of 'Fiesta: The Sun Also Rises'. The story is changed in form and function from a book into a screenplay. And so, Hemingway's vivid source material is transposed from its origin as a literary work into a pictorial outline of a film. An adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's novel. A …
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Summer Fling
Two estranged sisters, Liza and Nikki, travel to the seaside town of Hermanus. Liza hopes that a summer spent together will restore their once close relationship. Nikki is just looking for some fun. Then Liza disappears from the family holiday house. Messages left show that she's been abducted, …
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Irony and otherness : a study of some recent South African narrative fiction
This study considers the relation between irony and otherness. Chapter 2 shows that there is little agreement on the politics of irony in critical discussions. Nevertheless, irony and otherness do appear to be linked in many of these discussions. Chapter 3 offers a consideration of Emmanuel …
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Detective/text/critic
… thesis grapples with the curious relationship of the metaphors of detection and reading. Detective fiction is often seen as an enactment of reading, while the literary critic is often described in terms of detection, investigation and interrogation. The Introductory section discusses the …
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A comparative analysis of the written English used in 1969 and 1970 by English I students who participated in the English language tutional scheme at the University of Cape Town
This examination of students' writing, based on essays written by selected groups of students who participated in the English Language Tutorial Scheme in l969 and 1970, is aimed at establishing what the stylistic, lexical, grammatical and syntactical difficulties of students are. In this way, the …
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Satire and the satirist : a materialist reading of eighteenth-century satire
… literary analysis in a serious reconsideration of eighteenth-century satire as satire. In the process I see myself as challenging received notions of how the satire of the period is to be contextualized, as well as the way in which the category 'satire' has been constituted. I do not think it is …
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Negotiating truth, freedom and self : the prison narratives of some South African women
The autobiographical prison writings of four South African women - Ruth First, Caesarina Kana Makhoere, Emma Mashinini and Maggie Resha - form the focus of this study. South African autobiography is burdened with the task of producing history in the light of the silences enforced by apartheid …
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A study of the major science fiction works of Gene Wolfe
… major works by the American Science Fiction and Fantasy writer Gene Wolfe (Eugene Rodman Wolfe, 1931-). The central argument of this thesis is that in The Fifth Head of Cerberus (1972), the 'New Sun' cycle of novels (1980- 1987), and Soldier of the Mist (1986), Wolfe presents the human desire …
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Woman as enemy of the nation-state: citizenship, transgression and legacy in Maps and Half of a Yellow Sun
… to the fore two non-focalising characters, Misra of Maps by Nuruddin Farah and Kainene of Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. These transgressive characters are placed at the centre of their respective narratives. The aim is to demonstrate the way they transgress conventional …
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