Browsing Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs) by Author "10055614 - Wenzel, Martha Jacomina (Supervisor)"
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Achieving equivalence in literary translation from Afrikaans to English : Kaburu by Deon Opperman
Nel, Susan Elizabeth (2014)Drama translation is an area in the discipline of Translation Studies that has been neglected compared with the translation of other literary texts, especially in the South African context. This dissertation contributes ... -
Castaways and colonists from Crusoe to Coetzee
Smit-Marais, Susanna Johanna (North-West University, 2012)Generic transformation of the castaway novel is made evident by the various ways in which the narrative boundaries that separate fiction from reality and history, the past from the present, and the rational from the ... -
The Cherry Orchard transposed to contemporary South Africa : space and identity in cultural contexts
Krüger, Johanna Alida (North-West University, 2009)The transposition of Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard (originally published in Russian in 1904) to contemporary South Africa in Suzman's The Free State (2000) is based on the corresponding social changes within the two contexts. ... -
Focalisation in the translation/rewriting of narrative texts : A.P. Brink's Imaginings of sand/Sandkastele
Kruger, Jan-Louis (Potchefstroom University for Christian Higher Education, 2001)Narrative fiction presents translators with a particular challenge due to the subtitle shifts in focalisation complicated by factors such as embedded narratives and hypothetical focalisation. Furthermore, the gaps and ... -
Foregrounding/Resolving boundaries between "self and other" in selected contemporary South African novels
Lenz, Renate (2015)This study aims to evaluate the original white colonisers‟ or settlers‟ position and experience in Africa and South Africa during the transitional period between 1998 and 2011, as represented by English white male protagonists ... -
The formation and transformation of identity in the novel and film of Great expectations by Charles Dickens
Beneke, Nanette (North-West University, 2008)The research done in this study was motivated by the notion that individuals (or societies) create their own reality through the specific space they occupy at a certain moment in time. This concept of reality implies an ... -
The interdependency between causality, context and history in selected works by E.L. Doctorow
Van der Merwe, Philippus Wolrad (2000)This dissertation focuses on the interdependency between causality, context and history in selected novels by E.L. Doctorow: The Book of Daniel (1971), Ragtime (1974), Loon Lake (1980), World's Fair (1985) and The ... -
Kreatief diensbaar aan getrouheid : die strewe na kommunikatiewe ekwivalensie by die vertaling van 'n kinderboek
Hauman, Karen (1999)Some general translation theories are touched upon, but the emphasis falls on the translation of children's books. Translations aimed at young readers place not only specific, but also unique demands on the translator. ... -
Liminality : choice and responsibility in selected novels by JM Coetzee
Grobler, Anna Maria (2015)This thesis argues that JM Coetzee’s novels, in particular Foe, Disgrace, Elizabeth Costello, Slow Man and Diary of a Bad Year all illustrate the complexity of, and the ethical implications and far-reaching consequences ... -
The lord of the rings : the representation of space in the novel and film texts of The return of the king
Du Toit, Shané (2014)This study investigates the representation of narrative space in the novel and the film of The Return of the King. As the two representations belong to two different mediums, the theories on narrative space in the novel ... -
Placing the farm novel : space and place in female identity formation in Olive Schreiner's The story of an African farm and J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace
Smit, Susanna Johanna (North-West University, 2005)The farm in South Africa is an ideologically laden but also ambivalent concept, associated with pastoral ideals and the hierarchy of the colonial past; but also with fear and insecurity. The representation of the farm in ... -
Reconstructing identity in Peter Carey's Jack Maggs
Viljoen, Susanna Isobella (North-West University, 2007)The formation of identity is closely integrated with contextual, temporal and spatial dimensions. Perceptions about personal, cultural and historical identities are created within literary spaces through authorial and ... -
Re–placing memories : time, space and cultural expression in Ivan Vladislavić's fiction
Swanepoel, Aletta Catharina (North-West University, 2012)Ivan Vladislavić’s fiction shows a preoccupation with the South African past in terms of both time and space and with the influence of ideology on the interpretation of the past and of cultural artefacts such as cityscapes, ... -
Translating the "forest ethos" in Dalene Matthee's Kringe in 'n bos [Circles in a forest] with reference to Unter dem Kalanderbaum
Cloete, Willem Hendrik (2002)The significance of "space" as a context (historical, geographical, etc.) in the creation of cultural identity and consciousness, its capacity to evoke cultural associations, and its importance as a context for cultural ... -
The trickster in postmodern literature with special reference to Peter Carey's novel Illywhacker
Conradie, Pieter Willem (North-West University (South Africa) , Potchefstroom Campus, 2015)Peter Carey’s novel Illywhacker (1985) contains an example of an Australian trickster figure, who serves as a model of the trickster’s continual appearance in contemporary literature as a vehicle for the shadow archetype ... -
Unconfessed : a female slave's testimony
Engelbrecht, Mandy Renée (North-West University, 2012)Although well documented in terms of historical significance, very little is known about South African slaves’ experience of slavery. Except for a few accounts by slaves such as Emilie Lehn and Katie Jacobs, South African ...