Browsing Humanities by Subject "Modernism"
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Eudaimonics and the mythical method: a pilot study
(North-West University (South Africa), 2020)Criticising art only from a position of suspicion is an unstable epistemological and hermeneutic approach to adopt. In 2015, it resulted in the public destruction of dozens of works of “problematic” art on a South African ... -
An examination of translators' subjectivity in literary translation
(North-West University (South Africa), Vaal Triangle Campus, 2017)Recent research has pointed to a new paradigm shift in Translation Studies. In this paradigm, the role of translators is being examined not only in terms of who they are but also in terms of how their subjectivity impacts ... -
Fokalisasie en enkele Afrikaanse prosatekste : 'n vergelyking tussen ouer Afrikaanse en postmodernistiese tekste
(1998)Focalization in Postmodernist texts has not yet been exclusively dealt with in a study like this. This study is therefore aimed at investigating focalization from the period characterised as Old Afrikaans Prose up to the ... -
An investigation to explore the impact of construction of reality on motivation in the industry : a narrative investigation
(Potchefstroom University for Christian Higher Education, 2001)The objective of this research study is to attempt to determine whether the realities or life-stories that successful' employees construct with input from both their cultures of origin (external culture) and the organisational ... -
Nearing the post-secular: Unity of Being in the later poetry of T.S. Eliot and W.B. Yeats
(North-West University (South Africa), 2019)This dissertation investigates the ways in which the quest for Unity of Being in the later poetry of W.B. Yeats and T.S. Eliot anticipate what is now known as the “post-secular”. The term “Unity of Being” is drawn from ... -
Notes towards a metamodernist aesthetic with reference to post-millennial literary works
(North-West University (South Africa) , Potchefstroom Campus, 2017)This study draws on discussions of post-millennial literary fiction to investigate the emerging body of critical theory about the passing of postmodernism and the formulation of what comes after, designated "metamodernism". ... -
Perpetual nature: continuities between romantic and rodernist nature poetry
(North-West University (South Africa), 2020)The premise of this dissertation is that there are Romantic continuities present in the Modernist nature poetry and -imagery of T.S. Eliot and E.E. Cummings, which is especially apparent when compared to the nature poetry ... -
A scrutiny of postmodern themes and narratological devices in "The good soldier" by Ford Madox Ford
(Potchefstroom University, 2001)The dissertation emerged from a growing realization that various of the distinctive traits in The Good Soldier could be considered as bearing traces of certain characteristics of Postmodern fiction. The study sets out ...