This study focuses on the representation of masculine imagos in the South African novelist Eben Venter’s novel oeuvre and more specifically on the multifaceted nature of Venter’s delineation of masculinity. His novels ...

The novel Agaat by Marlene van Niekerk is a highly complex text. One of the most compelling aspects of the novel is the way in which the author constructs an underlying metaphorical grid which determines the composition ...

The novel Agaat by Marlene van Niekerk is a highly complex text. One of the most compelling aspects of the novel is the way in which the author constructs an underlying metaphorical grid which determines the composition ...

This research is prompted by the wealth of feminine figurations and the complex intratextual relations between feminine figurations in the poetry of T.T. Cloete as depicted in the volumes Angelliera, Jukstaposisie, Allotroop, ...

This study is an interdisciplinary exploration. It presents a narratological interpretation of selected installation artworks by the South African artist Jan van der Merwe (b. 1958). In particular, certain peculiarities ...

Elsabe Steenberg's oeuvre, consisting among others of forty two stories in book format, has four target groups -- preschool children, young children, teenagers and adults. Her narrative work is so richly ...

The decade of the eighties was a period of unprecedented resistance to apartheid as well as unprecedented violence in South Africa. Political violence and the struggle by blacks/coloureds caused many deaths during the years ...

Every reader will respond to and think in a different way about a book. They will have different interpretations of the book. It is not possible to say with scientific certainty in what way a reader will interpret a book. ...

Lady Anne by Antjie Krog is an artistically complex text, but is also securely rooted in the community. The complexity of the text is approached by way of a "writerly" reading strategy in this dissertation: different ...

This dissertation is a theoretical and interpretative exploration of the prominent themes which are developed in the novel Die olifantjagters by Piet van Rooyen. The study focuses on the spatial aspects of the narrative ...