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Embodiment in the poetry of Gabeba Baderoon
(2012)This dissertation examines the relation between embodiment and language, knowledge and memory, as explored in the poetry of South African poet Gabeba Baderoon. In her three published collections of poetry, namely, The ... -
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 ... -
Otherworldly spaces in selected poems by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and John Keats
(North-West University, 2006)A literary survey points out that spatiality - despite recent trends - does not receive much attention in the study of Romanticism. This dissertation aims to fill this gap and investigates the otherworldly realms that ... -
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 ... -
Redefining the African woman in contemporary African literature : a study of Adichie's Purple hibiscus, Half of a yellow sun, and Americanah
(North-West University (South Africa) , Potchefstroom Campus, 2016)This dissertation examines the redefinition of the African woman in the three novels of the Nigerian-American author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, namely Purple hibiscus (2004), Half of a yellow sun (2006) and Americanah (2013). ...