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Criteria of embarrassment: J. M. Coetzee's 'Jesus Trilogy' and the legacy of modernist difficulty
(Taylor & Francis, 2022)This article takes as its starting point the divergent responses that J.M. Coetzee’s Jesus trilogy (The Childhood of Jesus [2013], The Schooldays of Jesus [2016] and The Death of Jesus [2019]) has drawn from reviewers and ... -
Trauma and memorying in King's Killing Karoline, Msimang's Always Another Country and Smith's The Camp Whore
(University of the Free State, 2022-03)In this study I read Smith’s The Camp Whore (2017), King’s Killing Karoline (2017) and Msimang’s Always Another Country (2017) through theories of life narratives, memory, trauma and feminisms in order to unpack the ... -
Zulu Poems of (and for) nature: Bhekinkosi Ntuli’s environmental imagination in Imvunge Yemvelo (1972)
(Cambridge University Press, 2021)Nature, climate crisis, and the Anthropocene have carved space in recent inter-, cross-, and multi-disciplinary humanities studies. In South Africa, such studies have barely touched literature in African languages. Nyambi ... -
Reinventing the social scientist and humanist in era of big data : a perspective from South African scholars
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Surfers van die tsunami: navorsing en inligtingstegnologie binne die Geesteswetenskappe
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The politics of narrating the performance of power in selected Zimbabwean autobiographical writings
(University of the Free State, 2019-03)Over the past six decades, Zimbabwean politics and its trajectories have evolved as a result of nationalism, ethnocentrism, decolonisation, neo-colonialism, neoliberalism, nativism, Afro- radicalism and globalisation. These ... -
Zimbabwe urban grooves music and the interconnections between youth identities and celebrity culture
(University of the Free State, 2018-08)Zimbabwe urban grooves music is an urban contemporary hybrid genre of music that fuses local music, beats and cultural practices with global popular youth music and cultural practices, is sung predominantly in vernacular ... -
A theoretical justification for the design and refinement of a Test of Advanced Language Ability (TALA)
(University of the Free State, 2018-09)The emphasis on political equality among the official languages of South Africa makes equivalence in the instruction and assessment of these languages at school level an important objective. The results of the National ... -
Language learning beliefs and motivation of Foundation and Intermediate Phase Education students in developing mastery in English
(University of the Free State, 2018-10)Understanding what makes some individuals more successful in learning second languages is imperative if we are to design solutions that can potentially improve the language learning skills of learners who are not doing so ... -
A woman’s pilgrimage to herself through the mother complex: A Jungian reading of selected works by Sylvia Plath
(University of the Free State, 2017-06)Sylvia Plath’s work pioneers woman’s experience of herself, her identity, and the ample mental, psychic, emotional and physical phases of female development. Past scholarship has endeavoured to examine her work in terms ... -
Paul Slabolepszy's evocation of empathy in a South African setting: a realisation of the potential of comic technique
(University of the Free State, 1999-01)English: A study of comedy reveals its variety and scope, its subjective nature, how we are able to see in it a reflection of life and customs, and how comedy is able to evoke empathy for characters through our laughter ... -
African writers' use of symbolism, myth and allusion in presenting the ideology of leadership in post-independence Africa: a study of selected novels by Ngugi Wa Thiong'o, Chinua Achebe and Ayi Kwei Armah
(University of the Free State, 2000-11)This dissertation was aimed at examining African writers' use of symbolism, myth and allusion in presenting the ideology of leadership in the post-independence Africa. Specifically, it focussed on Ayi Kwei Armah's The ... -
The impact of a discourse-based teacher-counselling model in training language teachers for outcomes-based education
(University of the Free State, 2001-11)As outcomes-based education (OBE) is an approach to learning that fosters usable knowledge and skills in learners, with attitudes and values that are aligned with the ideals of the South African Constitution, it was a ... -
A critical study of specific exploded violent hierarchies in five novels by Toni Morrison
(University of the Free State, 2000-01)In a study of Toni Morrison's fiction it is appropriate to consider some of the relevant philosophical insights of Jacques Derrida, particularly Derrida's theory of deconstruction and the way in which it facilitates the ... -
Writing for equality: a comparative study of the writings of Wollstonecraft, Schreiner and Woolf on the status of women
(University of the Free State, 2007-08)Patriarchy has tainted the mind of society, thereby creating gender discrimination and inequality. Until recently, this bias against women filtered down to women writers too. This MA dissertation is a comparative study ... -
South African business-news interview talk : its typicality and implications for materials design in the domain of ESP
(University of the Free State, 2000-11)Drew and Heritage (1992) have focused attention on the influential role Conversation Analysis (CA) has played in the study of interaction in institutional settings. One such setting is the news interview, and a number ... -
Applied linguistic principles and designing CALL programmes for the ESL classroom
(University of the Free State, 2004-05)Applied Linguistics is largely concerned with teaching English as a second language (TESL) (Cruttenden, 1994, p6). This is not a simple field. There are a number of variables, such as the personalities of the individual ... -
The development and implementation of an English language and literature programme for low-proficiency tertiary learners
(University of the Free State, 2001-11)The University of the Free State, like most other tertiary institutions in South Africa, is faced with the challenge of establishing a framework within the university for redressing inequalities in education: inequalities ... -
The high school teacher's role in maximizing learners' initiative in English second language classes in Lesotho
(University of the Free State, 2000-11)English: The introductory chapters of this study explain minimum and maximum learner initiative and the forms in which they can be identified in the language teaching-Ieaming process. In other words, second language ... -
The discourse of the opressed and the language of the abandoned in selected plays of Harold Pinter
(University of the Free State, 2000-10)The focus of this study is to explore the notions of oppression and abandonment and language and discourse as it pertains to the works of Harold Pinter. A selected reading of three psychoanalysts: Erich Fromm, Sigmund ...
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