This project asserts that much of the cultural anxiety found in Gothic-infused late-Victorian fiction derives from literary revelations of the nested spaces, shifting identities, and spontaneous connections inherent to the late-Victorian metropolis. The three literary texts studied here – The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle, Raffles: The Amateur Cracksman by E.W. Hornung, and The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan – all depict London as fundamentally suitable for those who seek to evade the disciplinary gaze and to pursue menacing schemes of criminality and invasion. Doyle’s text illustrates the interconnectedness of the spaces within London as well as the passable threshold between London and the English countryside; both the villain Stapleton and the hero Sherlock Holmes use these connections to attack and defend, respectively, the city and its inhabitants. Hornung’s stories depict the machinations employed by the gentleman-thief Raffles as he alters his identity and his codes of behaviour in order to free himself to pursue criminal ends and thus as he challenges cultural barriers. Buchan’s text, building on the others, explores the dissolution of cultural boundaries and identities incumbent upon the spontaneous connections made between those who attack English culture and those, like Richard Hannay, who defend it. There emerges in these texts a vision of London (and by extension Great Britain) as a swirling vortex of motion, an unknowable labyrinth perpetually threatened by menacing agents from without and within. I have employed Victor Turner’s theories of liminality and communitas to describe how criminal agents, and their equally menacing “good-guy” pursuers, separate themselves from structured society in order to move freely and to gain access to the contested thresholds they seek to infiltrate. I also invoke theories of the Gothic, surveillance, and travel, as well as Jeffrey Cohen’s monster theory, to characterize the anxiety embedded in such invasions. / The transformation of contested space : Baker Street, Grimpen Mire and the battle for thresholds in The hound of the Baskervilles -- Hornung's code-switching monster : threatening ambiguity and liminoid mobility in Raffles, the amateur cracksman -- Towards a more inclusive Britishness : Richard Hannay's transformative connections and evolving identity in The thrity-nine steps. / Department of English

This thesis examines the campaign waged against Vichy's National Revolution by Robert Brasillach, Marcel Deat, Jacques Doriot, and Pierre Drieu La Rochelle. It explores the particular issues of contention separating Vichy and the Paris ultras as well as shedding light on the final evolution of a representative segment of the fascist phenomenon in France.

Thesis (MA (English))--University of Stellenbosch, 2009. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis interrogates the relationship between body, subjectivity and space in three antipastoral novels. The texts which I will be discussing, Karel Schoeman’s This Life, Anne Landsman’s The Devil’s Chimney and J.M. Coetzee’s In the Heart of the Country, all foreground the female protagonist’s relationship to a specifically South African landscape in a colonial time-frame. The inter-relatedness between the body, subjectivity and space is explored in order to show that there is a shifting interaction between these registers in the novels. Arising from this interaction, the importance of perspective as a way of being in the world is foregrounded. The approach adopted in this study is based on the assumption that our experience depends upon how we make meaning of the world through our bodies as we encounter people, places and objects. The lived, embodied experience is always a subjective experience. The conceptual framework is derived broadly from psychoanalysis and phenomenology. My primary concern in this study is how marginal subject positions are explored in the space of the South African farm, which, traditionally, is an ideologically fraught locus of Afrikaner patriarchy and oppression. The novels are narrated by distinctive female voices, each speaking differently, but all having the effect of undermining and exposing the hegemony of the patriarchal farm space. In all three novels the question of genre is involved as forming the space of the text itself. The novels speak to the tradition of the plaasroman and the pastoral and, in doing so, open up a conversation with the past. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: In hierdie tesis word die verhouding tussen die liggaam, subjektiwiteit en ruimte ondersoek in drie romans wat teen die pastorale literêre tradisie spreek. Die betrokke romans is This Life deur Karel Schoeman, The Devil’s Chimney deur Anne Landsman en In the Heart of the Country deur J.M. Coetzee. Die romans speel af in ‘n koloniale tydperk waar die vroulike protagonis se verhouding met die Suid-Afrikaanse landskap op die voorgrond gestel word. Die verwantskap tussen die liggaam, subjektiwiteit en ruimte word ondersoek om die interaksie tussen hierdie drie konsepte ten toon te stel. Wat vanuit hierdie interaksie voortspruit is die ontologiese rol wat perspektief speel as wyse om met die wêreld te verkeer. Hierdie studie benader die romans vanuit die siening dat die mens se ervaring afhang van hoe hy/sy die wêreld verstaan deur die interaksie tussen die liggaam en ander mense, ruimtes en objekte. Die beliggaamde ervaring is dus ‘n subjektiewe ervaring. Die konsepsuele raamwerk van hierdie ondersoek is afgelei van psigoanalise en fenomenologie. Die kern van hierdie studie is om te ondersoek hoe die posisie van die randfiguur in die ruimte van die Suid-Afrikaanse plaas ten toon gestel word. Die plaas is tradisioneel ‘n ideologiese bestrede ruimte van Afrikaner patriargie en onderdrukking. Die romans word verhaal deur drie kenmerkende en verskillende vroulike stemme wat dien om die hegemonie van die patriargale opset op die plase te ondermyn en ontbloot. Die vraagstuk van genre is in al drie romans betrokke aangesien genre die ruimte van die teks self uitmaak. Die romans spreek teen die tradisie van die plaasroman en die pastorale roman en tree sodoende in gesprek met die verlede.

Thesis (MA (English))--University of Stellenbosch, 2008. / The notion that the post-colonial text stands in direct opposition to the canonical European text, and thus acts as a kind of counter-discourse, is generally accepted within post-colonial theory. In fact, this concept is so fashionable that Salman Rushdie’s assertion that ‘the Empire writes back to the Centre’ has been adopted as a maxim within the field of post-colonial studies, simultaneously a mission statement and a summative description of the entire field. In its role as a ‘response’ to a dominant European literary tradition, the post-colonial text is often regarded as resorting to a strategy of subversion through inversion, in essence, telling the ‘other side of the story’. The post-colonial text, then, seeks to address the ways in which the western literary tradition has marginalised, misrepresented and silenced its others by providing a platform for these dissenting voices. While such a view rightly points to the post-colonial text’s concern with alterity and oppression, it also points to the agonistic nature of the genre. That is, within post-colonial theory, the literature of Empire does not emerge as autonomous and self-determining, but is restricted to the role of counter-discourse, forever placed in direct opposition (or in response) to a unified dominant social order. Post-colonial theory’s continued classification of the literature of Empire as a reaction to a normative, dominant discourse against which all others must be weighed and found wanting serves to strengthen the binary order which polarises centre and periphery. This study is concerned with ‘rewritten’ post-colonial texts, such as J.M. Coetzee’s Foe, Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea, Marina Warner’s Indigo, or, Mapping the Waters and Aimé Césaire’s A Tempest, and suggests that these revised texts exceed such narrow definition. Although often characterised by a concern with ‘political’ issues, the revised text surpasses the romantic notion of ‘speaking back’ by pointing to a more complex entanglement between post-colonial and canonical, self and other. These texts signal the collapse of binary order and the emergence of a new literary landscape in which there can be no dialogue between the clearly demarcated sites of Empire and Centre, but rather a global conversation that exceeds geographical location. It would seem as if the dependent texts in question resist offering mere pluralistic subversions of the logic of their pretexts. The desire to challenge the assumptions of a Eurocentric literary tradition is overshadowed by a distinct sense of disquiet or unease with the matrix text. This sense of unease is read as a response to an exaggerated iterability within the original text, which in turn stems from the matrix text’s inability to negotiate its own aporia. The aim of this study, then, is not to uncover the ways in which the post-colonial rewrite challenges the assumptions of its literary pretext, but rather to establish how certain elements of instability and subversion already present within the colonial pretext allows for such a return.

Thesis (MA)--University of Stellenbosch, 2002. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Socially responsible writing has been a feature of South African literature for many years. Under apartheid, many novels dealt with apartheid, as it was one of the main features of our social landscape. The end of apartheid did not however bring about the end of a need for socially responsible writing. South Africa is still faced with many problems, one of which is reconciliation. This thesis investigates whether reconciliation may have become a new theme in South African novels, and whether these novels could playa role in assisting the process of reconciliation in the country. For this purpose, three South African works are analysed, namely Country of My Skull by Antjie Krog, Smell of Apples by Mark Behr and Disgrace by J .M. Coetzee. The introduction attempts to explain the psychological discourse surrounding reconciliation, especially Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), and parallels that may exists. The main body presents detailed readings of the three works, with the focus being on the presentation of reconciliation in the works, and the role that the individual works could play in assisting the reader in coming to terms with his or her feelings of guilt. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Vir baie jare was apartheid die onderwerp van baie Suid Afrikaanse skrywers aangesien dit die mees problematiese element van Suid Afrikaanse samelewing was. Die einde van apartheid het egter nie die einde van alle probleme beteken nie. Een van die belangrike probleme is versoening. Hierdie tesis ondersoek die moontlikheid dat versoening die nuwe tema in Suid Afrikaanse letterkunde geword het en ofhierdie werke 'n bydrae kan lewer tot werklike versoening. Vir hierdie doel word drie werke behandel, naamlik Country of My Skull deur Antjie Krog, Smell of Apples deur Mark Behr en Disgrace deur J .M. Coetzee. Die inleiding poog om die sielkundige diskoers om versoening te verduidelik, veral rondom posttraumatiese stres, en die ooreenkomste wat mag voorkom. Die hoofdeel van die tesis bestaan uit 'n diepgaande bespreking van die drie werke, met die fokus op versoening in die werk, maar ook die rol wat die werke kan speel om die leser deur sy ofhaar skuld gevoelens te help.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:26:54Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2010-08-09Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T20:16:02Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 costa_da_me_sjrp.pdf: 460811 bytes, checksum: dd51b629c564ace17b2d1340cb0cd3d8 (MD5) / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / Este trabalho propõe-se a verificar os procedimentos ficcionais utilizados na composição do romance Paisagem com mulher e mar ao fundo, 1982, da escritora portuguesa contemporânea Teolinda Gersão. O intuito é mostrar que essa narrativa se estrutura por meio de uma configuração múltipla de cenários e linguagens interligados, que ao se sobreporem revelam os embates do sujeito, em sua relação com o mundo, e os da escrita, em seu rompimento com a tradição romanesca e reflexão metalinguística. Essa configuração múltipla permite-nos visualizar em Paisagem, de um lado, a fragmentação do sujeito em sua relação com o mundo, o espaço opressor, a atmosfera conturbada de fatos recentes da história de Portugal, como a ditadura salazarista, a Guerra Colonial e a Revolução dos Cravos e também questões ligadas ao imaginário cultural e à identidade portuguesa. De outro lado, os cenários da escrita. Uma escrita também fragmentada – espécie de extensão ou prolongamento do sujeito - que remete a si mesma e dialoga com os procedimentos ficcionais do romance moderno (como a projeção móvel do foco narrativo e a fragmentação espácio-temporal), com outros textos e outros sistemas sígnicos, em especial a linguagem pictórica e a arquitetônica, motivada até mesmo pelas personagens Hortense (pintora) e Horácio (arquiteto) / This study aims at examining the fictional proceedings used in the novel Paisagem com mulher e mar ao fundo (1982), by the contemporary Portuguese writer Teolinda Gersão. The objective is to show that this narrative is structured through a multiple configuration of linked sceneries and languages which, when overlapped, reveal the subject’s conflicts concerning the world as well as those related to the act of writing, in its rupture with the novel tradition and the metalinguistic reflection. This multiple configuration of the novel allows to perceive, on one hand, the subject fragmentation related to the world, the oppressive space, the confusing atmosphere of recent facts in the history of Portugal, as the Salazar dictatorship, the Colonial War and the Carnation Revolution – issues linked to the cultural imaginary and to the Portuguese identity. On the other hand, the writing sceneries, which reflect a fragmented writing – a kind of extension or prolongation of the subject – that refers to itself and dialogues with the fictional proceedings of modern novels, with other sign systems (or other arts), in special painting and architecture and with other texts

Trata-se de uma leitura crítica do romance On the Road, do escritor norte-americano Jack Kerouac, cujas vida e obra representam a insatisfação social e a manifestação artística de uma geração de poetas e novelistas denominada, nas décadas de 50 e 60, The Beat Generation ou The Beatniks. Esta leitura consiste em uma investigação para estabelecer relações entre a tríade autor-narrador-protagonista na narrativa proposta. Como apoio teórico temos o olhar do filósofo alemão Walter Benjamin. O enfoque escolhido contempla as reflexões de Benjamin sobre autoria, experiência e modernidade; mas, sobretudo, privilegia a sua concepção do flâneur; uma vez que o objetivo do trabalho é mostrar o movimento e o papel exercido pelo mesmo, tanto no corpus literário como na vida do autor Beatnik. Para tanto, esta dissertação está dividida em três partes. A primeira apresenta um breve histórico da situação dos Estados Unidos no pós-guerra, a fim de contextualizar e discutir a criação do movimento Beat como vanguarda artística daquela época. A segunda parte introduz o pensamento de Walter Benjamin acerca do flâneur. Destaca, também, fatos e momentos relevantes de sua vida e obra. Apresenta, ainda, o ponto de vista de Sérgio Rouanet sobre a obra do filósofo. O terceiro momento analisa o romance On the Road em conexão com os movimentos do flâneur e no âmbito da tradição de Literatura de Viagem, dando relevância às questões de autoria. Deste modo, na conclusão, espera-se legitimar o papel do flâneur no espaço narrativo e, também, histórico-social daquela geração. / This is a critical reading of On the Road, a novel by the North American writer Jack Kerouac, whose life and work represent the social dissatisfaction and the artistic manifestation of a generation of poets and novelists denominated, in the decades of 50 and 60, The Beat Generation, or The Beatniks. The work consists of an investigation to establish relationships among the triad author-narrator-protagonist in the proposed narrative. Supported by the theory of Walter Benjamin, the chosen theme contemplates the reflections of Benjamin about authorship, experience and modernity; but, above all, it privileges his conception of the flâneur; once the objective of the work is to show his movement and role in the literary corpus, as well as in the life of the Beatnik author. This thesis is divided in three parts. The first presents a brief historical comment on the situation of the United States in the postwar period, in order to contextualize and discuss the creation of the Beat Movement as an avantgardist manifestation. The second part introduces Kerouac and Benjamin, highlighting facts and important moments of their lives and work through the movements of the flâneur. The third moment analyzes On the Road in connection with Walter Benjamin's thoughts and in the extent of the tradition of Travel Literature, emphasizing the relevance of authorship. In the conclusion, I expect to legitimate the role of the flâneur in the narrative and socio-historical scope of that generation.

Die vorliegende These systematisiert und analysiert zum ersten Mal die architektonischen und städtebaulichen Pläne undWerke von Arnaldo Gladosch (1903- 1954) - ein in São Paulo geborener Architekt, ausgebildet 1926 an der Technischen Hochschule Dresden, dessen Aktivität sich hauptsächlich in den 30er und 40er Jahren in Rio, São Paulo und Porto Alegre konzentriert hat. Neben seiner Laufbahn als Architekt und Autor von Projekten, wie das vom Kaufhaus Mesbla oder das Sulacap- Gebäude in Porto Alegre, hebt sich sein Können als Urbanist und Teilnehmer der von Alfred Agache geleiteten Gruppe zur Durchführung des neuen Stadtplans von Rio – Erweiterung, Neugestaltung und Verschönerung - hervor, ebenso auch als Schöpfer des Plans für Porto Alegre, der seinen Namen trägt, und zu dem er 1938 vom Präfekten Loureiro da Silva eingeladen wurde. DieWahl für Gladosch ist von Gedanken über die Art und Weise seiner Architektur und Städtebau ausgegangen, unter der Berücksichtigung der in Brasilien gängigen internationalen urbanistischen und architektonischen Anschauungen, die durch das Studium der Brasilianer im Ausland aufgekommen sind. Seine Ideen und Werke gehören zu einem breiteren Gefüge städtebaulicher und architektonischer Praktiken, dessen Erkenntnis sich in der Erweiterung des Wissenstandes über Stadtordnung in einer grundwichtigen Epoche der Konsolidierung der brasilianischen Städte entfaltet und auch in der Auszeichnung einer anderen, hierzulande fast abwesenden Architektur. Welche Lehren über das Entwerfen und über das Verhältnis zur Stadt hat uns Arnaldo Gladosch hinterlassen? Um die Frage zu beantworten, bediente man sich vor allem der Analyse, Auslegung und Kritik der Werke in loco und in graphischen und bildlichen Originalquellen. Sie enthüllen eine Werkarchitektur von beispielhafter Technik, bis heute noch beständig, die das Gesicht der Grossstadt prägt, von der sie unzertrennlich ist. / A presente tese sistematiza e analisa pela primeira vez, em seu conjunto, as proposições e obras arquitetônicas e urbanísticas de Arnaldo Gladosch (1903-1954), arquiteto paulistano formado em 1926, na Technische Hochschule de Dresden, cuja produção concentrou-se, principalmente nos anos 30 e 40, no Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo e Porto Alegre. Além de sua atividade como arquiteto de edifícios, como os que serviram às lojas Mesbla e também do edifício Sulacap de Porto Alegre, destaca- se a sua atuação como urbanista, participante da equipe de Alfred Agache no desenvolvimento do Plano Cidade do Rio de Janeiro - Extensão - Remodelação - Embelezamento, e como autor do Plano Diretor da Cidade de Porto Alegre (que levou seu nome), a convite do prefeito estadonovista Loureiro da Silva em 1938. A escolha por Gladosch partiu de indagações a respeito do seu modo de fazer arquitetura e cidade, considerando a circulação de concepções urbanísticas e arquitetônicas internacionais no Brasil mediante a educação formal de brasileiros no exterior. As suas idéias e realizações fazem parte de um quadro mais amplo das práticas urbanísticas e arquitetônicas cujo reconhecimento se desdobra na ampliação do saber acerca da ordenação urbana num período fundamental na consolidação das grandes cidades brasileiras e na distinção de uma outra arquitetura quase ausente na nossa historiografia. Que lições a respeito do manejo projetual e relações com a cidade Arnaldo Gladosch nos legou? Procurou-se responder à pergunta utilizandose, principalmente, da análise, interpretação e crítica das obras in loco e em fonte documental e iconográfica primária revelando uma arquitetura de ofício e técnica exemplares, que ainda perdura e marca a fisionomia da metrópole da qual é parte inseparável. / This present theses systemizes and analyses for the first time the propositions and architectural and urban work of Arnaldo Gladosch (1903-1954), a paulistano architect graduated in 1926, in Technische Hochschule from Dresden, whose production focused, mainly in the 30’s and 40’s, in Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo and Porto Alegre. Besides his activity as an architect of buildings, such as the ones that served to Mesbla store and Sulacap building in Porto Alegre, his performance as urbanist is also highlighted, as a member of the Alfred Agache team in the development of the City Plan of Rio de Janeiro – Extension – Remodeling – Embellishment, and as author of the City Plan of Porto Alegre (which received his name), with an invitation from the new state mayor Loureiro da Silva in 1938. The choice for Gladosch originated from questions concerning his way of making architecture and city, considering the circulation of international urban and architectural conceptions in Brazil through the formal education of Brazilians outside the country. His ideas and accomplishments are part of a much greater picture of urban and architectural practices whose recognition unfolds in the enlargement of knowledge around the urban ordering in a period that was fundamental for the consolidation of the great Brazilian cities and in the distinction of this other architecture, almost absent in our historiography. What lessons related with the handling of the project and relation with the city did Arnaldo Gladosch left for us? The attempt was to answer this question mainly through the analysis, interpretation and critics of the work in place and in documental and iconographic primary sources, revealing an office architecture and exemplary technique, which still lasts and shapes the face of the metropolis of which it is an inseparable part.

Uma incursão pelo romance Avalovara, de Osman Lins, abre possibilidades para a descoberta de um universo acústico repleto de simbolismos, permeando as cenas da narrativa. O presente trabalho fundamenta-se nas pesquisas do compositor e educador canadense Raymond Murray Schafer sobre a paisagem sonora mundial. Propõe-se a investigar a relação entre a obra literária Avalovara e a linguagem sonora a partir das expressões acústicas do romance, identificando os possíveis significados de tais conexões. Fez-se necessária a transposição para o mundo ficcional de Avalovara da metodologia de análise e classificação dos sons utilizada por Schafer, tendo sido elaborada uma tabela de categorização contendo os cenários mais significativos com as sonoridades identificadas em cada um deles. Uma passagem pelos caminhos da ecocrítica e da ecologia sonora possibilitam, com base na visão de Schafer sobre ruído associada a diversas expressões de sons estridentes presentes na narrativa, vislumbrar uma proximidade do pensamento de Osman Lins com o ideário da ecologia acústica. Sons naturais, música, ruídos e silêncio se mesclam em uma sinfonia de oposições sonoras em que o ir e o vir dá vida e ritmo à narrativa, estabelecendo uma ligação da linguagem literária com a linguagem musical. Inter-relacionam-se, também, a estrutura do romance e a organização formal de peças musicais relevantes, tais como, a cantata Catulli Carmina, de Carl Orff, e os fragmentos da introdução da Sonata em fá menor (K462) para cravo, de Scarlatti. Quatro músicas de caráter contrastante, aqui denominadas de eixos musicais, revelam o percurso dos protagonistas em suas buscas, seus anseios e suas frustrações. O pássaro Avalovara com seus cantos, gritos e movimentos em espiral, traz à tona um mundo de mistérios que permite fazer associações e interpretar os diversos simbolismos relacionados à ave guia. As palavras no corpo da remetem a um processo de iniciação para o conhecimento, quando o pássaro mítico a introduz no mundo dos sons. Alguns aspectos da filosofia tântrica são aqui abordados em razão da profunda similaridade dos processos de ascensão espiritual com a trajetória de Abel e a , em sua obstinada busca pelo conhecimento absoluto a partir do domínio dos mistérios das palavras que perpassam o corpo da mulher tríplice. O silêncio no romance é analisado sob várias perspectivas, relacionando-o com a filosofia tântrica e com as concepções de Schafer e de John Cage. O romance foi considerado como uma única paisagem sonora e seus fragmentos cênicos denominados, neste trabalho, de cenários sonoros. / A foray into romance Avalovara, Osman Lins, opens up possibilities for the discovery of an acoustic universe full of symbolism permeating the scenes of the narrative. This paper is based on the researches of the Canadian composer and educator Raymond Murray Schafer about the global soundscape. It propose to investigate the relationship between the literary work Avalovara and a sound language from the novel acustic expressions, identifying the possible meanings of such connections. Was necessary a transposition to the fictional world of Avalovara of the analysis methodology and classification of sounds used by Schafer, having been developed a categorization table containing the most significant scenarios with the sounds identified in each of them. A passage along the paths of ecocriticism and sound ecology allow, based on Schafer's view of noise associated with various expressions of strident sounds present in the narrative, to glimpse a proximity of the thought of Osman Lins with the ideas of acoustic ecology. Natural sounds, music, noise and silence blend themselves in a symphony of sound oppositions where the going and coming give life and rhythm to the narrative, connecting the literary language with the musical language. Interrelate also the structure of the novel and the formal organization of relevant musical pieces such as the Catulli Carmina cantata, of Carl Orff, and the fragments of the introduction of the Sonata in F minor (K462) for harpsichord, of Scarlatti. Four musics of contrasting character, here called of musical axis, shows the route of the protagonists in their searches, their anxieties and their frustrations. The Avalovara bird with their chants, shouts and spiral movements brings up a world of mysteries that allows associations and interpret the various symbolisms related to bird guide. The words in the body of refer to a process of initiation into the knowledge, when the mythical bird introduces her in the world of sounds. Some aspects of tantric philosophy are addressed here because of the profound similarity of spiritual ascension process with the trajectory of Abel and , in his dogged pursuit of absolute knowledge from the control of the mysteries of words that permeate the body of the triple woman. The silence in the novel is analyzed from various perspectives, relating it with the tantrik philosophy and the thought of Schafer and John Cage. The novel was regarded as a unique soundscape and its scenic fragments called, in this work, of sound scenarios.

This thesis provides a detailed consideration of the family in Shakespeare’s canon and the engagement therewith in three South African novels: Hill of Fools (1976) by R. L. Peteni, My Son’s Story (1990) by Nadine Gordimer, and Disgrace (1999) by J. M. Coetzee. The study is divided into an introduction, three chapters each addressing one of the South African novels and its relationship with a Shakespeare text or texts, and a conclusion. The introductory chapter provides an analysis of the two strands of criticism in which the thesis is situated – studies of the family in Shakespeare and studies of appropriations of Shakespeare – and discusses the ways in which these two strands may be combined through a detailed discussion of the presence of power dynamics in the relationship between parent and child in all of the texts considered. The three chapters each contextualise the South African text and provide detailed discussions of the family dynamics within the relevant texts, with particular reference to questions of authority and autonomy. The focus in each chapter is determined by the nature of the intertextual relationship between the South African novel and the Shakespearean text being discussed. Thus, the first chapter, “The Dissolution of Familial Structures in Hill of Fools” considers power dynamics in the family as an inherent part of the Romeo and Juliet genre, of which William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet is but a part. Similarly, the impact of a socio-political identity, and the secrecy it necessitates, is the focus of the second chapter, “Fathers, Sons and Legacy in My Son’s Story” as is the role of Shakespeare and literature within South Africa. These concerns are connected to the novel’s use of Shakespeare’s Sonnets, King Lear, and Hamlet. In the third chapter, “Reclaiming Agency through the Daughter in Disgrace and The Tempest”, I expand on Laurence Wright’s argument that Disgrace is an engagement with The Tempest and consider ways in which the altered power dynamic between father and daughter results in the reconciliation of the father figure with society. The thesis thus addresses the tension between parental bonds and parental bondage