Browsing Humanities by Author "10058931 - Viljoen, Hendrik Marthinus (Supervisor)"
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An analysis of selected poems from Sefalana sa menate by L.D. Raditladi with reference to Riffaterre's and Lotman's semiotics
(North-West University, 2009)The aim of this study was to define a semiotics of poetry, to apply that semiotics to analyze seven poems by L.D. Raditladi and to determine how cultural elements are transformed in Raditladi's poems. The study comprises ... -
An analysis of the construction of Tswana cultural identity in selected Tswana literary texts
(Potchefstroom University for Christian Higher Education, 2002)The aim of this study is to analyse the construction of Setswana cultural identity in the Tswana literary texts : Pelo e ja serati; Dintshontsho tsa lorato; Maragana; Magagana; Pelo e ntsho, Matlhotlhapelo; Bogosi kupe and ... -
Aspects of duration and identity in J.W.P. Mashike's short stories Pelo Segole
(2003)The aim of this study is to apply Genette's narratological theory and Ricoeur's views on narrative identity to selected short stories from J.W. Mashike's Pelo Segole. The study comprises four chapters. The problems ... -
Characterization in "Pelo e ja Serati" by J.M. Ntsime
(Potchefstroom University for Christian Higher Education, 1998)The aim of this study was to explore representation and use of character in J. M. Ntsime's play, Pelo e ja Serati, with special reference to the ways in which the general attitudes and thinking processes of the characters ... -
The Cherry Orchard transposed to contemporary South Africa : space and identity in cultural contexts
(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. ... -
The creation of identity through dialogue in Se se jeleng rre by J.M. Ntsime
(North-West University, 2007)Dialogue, as the central constitutive element of drama, to a large extent also contributes to delineating characters and to affirming their identity. This dissertation is an attempt to investigate how dialogue creates ... -
Fictional worlds and focalisation in works by Hermann Hesse and E.L. Doctorow
(North-West University, 2011)The main focus of this study concerns the contribution of focalisation to the creation of fictional worlds through the combination of the “building blocks” of a fictional world, namely the central focalising and focalised ... -
Gestorwe geliefdes : ʼn vergelyking van die neerslag van die mite van Orfeus en Euridike in die rekonstruksie van die selfnarratief in Apostroof van Fanie Olivier en Doodsbloei van Pieter Boskma
(North-West University (South Africa) , Potchefstroom Campus, 2017)Die neerslag van die mite van Orfeus en Euridike in die rekonstruksie van die selfnarratief in Apostroof (Fanie Olivier) en Doodsbloei (Pieter Boskma) word in hierdie studie ondersoek. Die unieke wyse waarop elke digter ... -
Die grens tussen lewe en dood : 'n studie van spookkarakters in die roman-oeuvre van Etienne van Heerden
(2015)Hierdie studie stel ondersoek in na die voorkoms en funksie van spookkarakters in die roman-oeuvre van Etienne van Heerden, een van Afrikaanse letterkunde se mees bekroonde skrywers. Die doel van hierdie studie is om vas ... -
Patroonmatighede in die struktuur en algemene inhoud van Afrikaanse Jakkals-en-Wolf-trieksterverhale
(2014)Research problem - This research revolves around the problem: Which characteristic/repetitive pattern formations can be identified in the structure and general content of selected Afrikaans Jakkals en Wolf (Jackal and Wolf) ... -
Polyphonic conversations between novel and film : Heart of darkness and Apocalypse now ; Na die geliefde land and Promised land
(North-West University, 2006)This dissertation attempts a Bakhtinian analysis of the polyphonic dialogue between Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now, Karel Schoeman's Na die Geliefde Land and Jason Xenopoulos' ... -
Die rol van ruimte in Afrikaanse spookstories
(North-West University, 2008)This study investigates the functions of space in the Afrikaans ghost story. The aim of this study is to form an overall understanding of the functions of space in the Afrikaans ghost story, and also to promp further ... -
Subjekvorming deur literatuuronderrig aan universiteite in Suid–Afrika sedert 1994
(2002)Hierdie studie ondersoek die beroepsgeleenthede vir literatuurgraduandi in postapartheid Suid-Afrika. Die subjekvorming van literatuurstudente en -dosente word ondersoek deur ideologie-kritiese analises van akademiese en ... -
'n Vergelykende ondersoek na landskap as woon in die latere poësie van Breyten Breytenbach en Lucebert
(2015)This thesis compares the later poetry of Breyten Breytenbach and Lucebert from the phenomenological approach of landscape as dwelling. The metaphor of landscape as dwelling is derived from the art philosophy of Martin ...
