English (School of): Recent submissions
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Blank : a ghostly story
(2023-06-12) - ThesisThis work is the first seven chapters of a middle grade or young adult novel in the urban fantasy genre. These chapters introduce the two main characters and some supporting characters. Foremost among these supporting ... -
Racialised violence in white-authored post-apartheid South African literature
(2022-11-30) - ThesisIn this thesis I discuss the racialisation and spatialization of violence in Heidi Holland’s Born in Soweto, J. M. Coetzee’s Disgrace, and Elaine Proctor’s The Savage Hour. The three spaces I discuss this within are the ... -
My girl : a novel, the first twelve chapters
(2022-11-30) - ThesisAbstract Ginny Moore is seventeen in the winter of 1950 when she gets hit by a car in a freak accident, resulting in the amputation of her legs from the knees down. The accident sets the scene for the novels' themes to ... -
"t̶h̶e̶ ̶l̶i̶g̶h̶t̶ ̶t̶o̶u̶c̶h̶ ̶o̶f̶ ̶a̶ ̶v̶e̶r̶y̶ ̶f̶r̶i̶e̶n̶d̶l̶y̶ ̶h̶a̶n̶d̶" : style and the haptic in Jane Austen's manuscripts
(2022-11-30) - ThesisThis thesis focuses on Jane Austen’s surviving manuscripts: those of her extant letters, of her early fiction, gathered in three handmade books (commonly called ‘juvenilia’), of her later fiction, unpublished during her ... -
Women's dialogue in English neoclassical tragedy, 1550 to 1610
(2022-11-30) - ThesisThis thesis examines scenes of women’s dialogue in neoclassical tragedies of the English Renaissance, from 1550 to 1610. Their composition mostly coincided with either the rise of queenly rule in England in the 1550s, or ...