Bibliography: pages 175-181. / Through textual references Hugo Claus combines in his dense, Modernist novel De verwondering the vegetation myths of James George Frazer's The Golden Bough and Freud’s reading of the myth of Oedipus to cast the characters in what could be viewed as archetypal patterns of inter-subject relations. This novel is interpreted by identifying the archetypal patterns which form the depth structure of inter-subject relations in the novel, and discussing the implied mechanisms of these relations in the light of on psychoanalytic theories on subject formation and the rote of phantasms in the development of the mind. A proper reading of the intertexts of De verwondering initiates a discourse on human relations, death and sexuality. It is implied in the text that the relationship between the sexes is informed by primitive man’s experience of reality and the mysteries of sex and death.

Met die gay-teks as primere objek van ondersoek, is daar in hierdie studie gekyk na die onderskeiding tussen hoofstroomen gay-literatuur. Die hipotese van hierdie studie is dat bogenoemde onderskeiding nie in aIle gevalle geregverdig kan word nie. Hierdie studie ontken nie die verskille tussen die gay-teks en hoofstroom-literatuur nie. Inteendeel, daar word kennis van die onderskeiding geneem. As vertrekpunt word die aard van die gay-teks ondersoek. Dit word gedefinieer as n geordende opeenvolging van sinne wat as n samehangende eenheid geproduseer en/of geinterpreteer word waarin homofiliteit n rol speel primer, sekonder, of bloat as 'n suggestie of sensibiliteit. Die verskil tussen gay- en hoofstroom-literatuur vind veral op tematiese vlak plaas waar die bogenoemde definisie duidelik van toepassing is. Die kern van die hoofstroom-teks bestaan daarin dat die teks grotendeels op die uitbeelding van 'n menslike kondisie fokus. Hierdie menslike kondisie behels ervaringe wat aIle mense met mekaar gemeen het. n Teks kan op verskeie vlakke geinterpreteer word. Met Edmund White se roman, A Boy's Own Story as proefteks, toon hierdie studie dat een teks as beide gay- en hoofstroom teks gelees kan word. Hiermee word bewys dat die gay-teks en hoofstroom-literatuur nie antonieme van mekaar hoef te wees nie.

Bibliography: pages 161-168. / Hierdie studie het gemik op 'n herwaardering van Elise Muller se bydrae tot die Afrikaanse letterkunde. Hennie Aucamp het met Elise Muller. Verhale en essays 1942-1981, die eerste stap tot herwaardering geneem ten opsigte van Elise Muller en haar prosawerk. So ook het Nel in haar skripsie met waardering gekyk na die bekende en haas onbekende werk van Muller. Hierdie nuwe kyk na die werk van Elise Muller word in die tesis verder gevoer. Dit poog om die onbekende, "ander" Elise Muller op die voorgrond te stel. Ten einde die "ander" Muller te belig, was dit nodig om te let op die tradisionele Muller. 'n Ondersoek na beide Muller se vernuwende en tradisionele bydrae tot die Afrikaanse letterkunde het dit duidelik laat blyk dat sy heel gebalanseerd en genuanseerd te werke gaan met die tradisionele Afrikaner ideologieë.

My doel met hierdie studie is nie om 'n geskiedenis van die Afrikaanse Taalbeweging te gee nie. Ek wil slegs aandui hoe die genootskappers en ander stryers vir die Afrikaanse saak hul gestelde doel, n.l. om die nasionale gevoel van die volk aan te wakker en die volk te oortuig van die waarde van sy eie taal, deur die uitgee van Afrikaanse geskrifte probeer bereik het. Ook is my doel nie om te let op die literere waarde van die werke of om die geskiedkundige uiteensettinge daarin aan die waarheid te toets nie. Ek wil net maar 'n studie maak van die rol wat hierdie werke in die verwesenliking van 'n nasionale oplewing gespeel het.

Includes bibliographical references. / This study explores the structure of crime and detective fiction. It takes the view that certain texts do not adopt either form specifically, but often adopts a combination thereof. It looks at the role which time plays in the structure of these forms by examining the time strategies that are present therein. Attention is given to the criteria used to distinguish the two forms from each other as well as how time manipulation differs between the forms. Deon Meyer’s novels 13 Uur, Infanta and Orion are analysed as example texts to establish whether the use of time is sophisticated enough to merit crime fiction, detective fiction and the combination text as a worthy field of study. The analysis looks at 13 Uur as detective fiction, Infanta as crime fiction and Orion as a combined text to show the integral part that time plays in crime and detective fiction. What this study demonstrates is that the thread of time is deeply rooted in the puzzle that is present in crime and detective fiction. The complex time strategies that Meyer makes use of, demonstrates that the proses of constructing and telling this puzzle is not a simple one, and is therefore worthy of being researched.

Bibliography: p. 274-279. / The aim of this thesis was the systematic investigation of the relative pronoun in South African texts from 1652 to 1900 to ascertain when the first divergences from the Dutch occurred, to what extent these increased and how far the use of the Afrikaans relative pronoun was established by 1900.

Leroux se stelselmatige vernietiging van die mite, die kuns, die skrywer en wesentlik die kosmos deur sy oeuvre, word dan ook moontlik nie net vermag nie, maar aanvaarbaar gemaak, deur sy aanwending van die humoristiese skryfwyse wat relativerend werk ten opsigte van die inhoud van sy werk, maar ook ten opsigte van die leser se reaksie daarop. Sander die humor sou sy virtuele kosmiese ontploffings (oos die moderne sub-atomiese fisika) te verpletterend en psigies ontwrigtend wees vir die mees te mense. Deur "waarhede" met humor te klee, bied die skrywer 'n uitweg vir die leser: hy kan alles as 'n groot grap (weliswaar nie altyd in "goeie" smaak nie) klassifiseer en so sy angs by die oorweging van die moontlike implikasies onderdruk.

Van Ingrid Jonker is slegs drie digbundels gepubliseer, waarvan een postuum verskyn het. Ten spyte van hierdie skrale oeuvre het haar poësie by verskillende kritici hooggestemde waardering uitgelok. In In Memoriam Ingrid Jonker bespreek Uys Krige etlike van Ingrid Jonker se gedigte op verskeie van sy uitsprake kom ek in my bespreking van Rook en oker terug en konstateer hy o.m. dat "in haar beste (werk) Ingrid Jonker haar eie individualiteit en persoonlikheid, haar eie stem (het)" (p. 53). Hy vind "die beste van Ingrid Jonker se gedigte eersterangs", en meen dat "in Rook en oker … minstens twaalf eersterangse gedigte (is) wat 3) myns insiens sal bly staan in ons letterkunde". Krige spreek ook sy verbasing uit dat Dirk Opperman "My pop val stukkend" nie in Groot verseboek opgeneem het nie - hy sê dis "sonder twyfel … vir my een van die merkwaardigste moderne gedigte wat ek ken"

This study focusses on the role of the wounded child in the writing process of authors who write children's and youth literature. The psychoanalytic theories of Alice Miller will be discussed with reference to a selection of her publications. Miller's theories are used to determine if the experiences and repressed emotions of an author's childhood play a role in their contextual and practical choices when writing children's literature. Miller's arguments and research about child abuse, the reliving process and the body's memory will be used as a theoretical framework. A contextual sample analysis on fairy tales will first be done, because it is considered an established form of children's literature. Hans Christian Andersen is used as a case study, due to the direct authorship of his fairy tales. In his case the theories of Melanie Klein will be used to complement those of Miller. This will be done in order to examine the role of Andersen's mother and grandmother within his fairy tales. The use of Klein's work is due to Miller's rejection of Freud. Klein incorporates Freud, whereas Miller rejects his concepts. Klein's theory will support Miller's as well as provide an additional perspective on child psychoanalysis. Selected characterisations and narratives within fairy tales will be singled out to demonstrate arguments from Miller's theories. The children's and youth literature of Fanie Viljoen, François Bloemhof and Verna Vels will be considered in order to determine if Miller's theories could deliver similar results as in the fairy tale sample analysis. Aspects which will be examined are the writing process, motivation for the creation of texts, prominent themes as well as practical choices surrounding narrative. Miller's concept of a "wounded" child will be examined in relation to the author and the writing process. The function of the wounded child and why Miller is the most appropriate reading strategy for children's and youth literature will be argued. To conclude, the actual goal of children's and youth literature and the most appropriate approach to it will be discussed. The practice of bibliotherapy will be presented as a practical example of the use of children's and youth literature. The point of this study is that the reliving process, to which Miller refers, results in the author returning to specific traumatic, embarrassing or extremely happy moments in his or her childhood. This process makes it possible to refer to a "wounded" child, where the profound nature of an experience points towards an ideal reader for which the writer creates the text.

Bibliography: leaves 64-66. / Using the principles of previous studies of children's literature and the psychological development of children, this work examines the literary texts, Hany Potter and The Chronicles of Narnia, to determine whether or not they succeed as good fantasy literature for children.