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Includes abstract. / Includes bibliographical references. / This dissertation investigates the incidence of the religious thematics in the work of Afrikaans poets who published around the eighties of the previous century, with specific reference to the Job poems of T.T. Cloete. By using various theoretical works the concept religious was discussed as well as the character of a poem with a religious thematics. Six evaluation principles were formulated which were used to analyse poems in order to establish whether the abstraction, that is religion, was transformed into an independent concrete poem. Works of Du Buisson, Pretorius, Riccio, Santayana, Snyman, Van der Colf and others were used as the theoretical basis.

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Bibliography : leaves 27-29. / The work which follows is divided into two sections. The first section consists of the thirty-three original poems of the title. The second section consists of notes which reflect at length on both the process of writing love poetry and on the poems and other works which have influenced the composition of these thirty-three pieces.

Hierdie tesis in kreatiewe skryfwerk is 'n ondersoek na die landskap van my verse in Die vloedbos wal weer vlieg. Toepassing vind plaas teen di agtergrond van 'n tematiese indeling van die teks. Harold Bloom se benadering in A map of misreading word gevolg ter bevestiging van digterlike identiteit. My motivering tot die skryf va poësie word voorts geanaliseer aan die hand van Paul Ricoeur se teorie vir narratiewe hoop, Passion for the possible, en Rainer Maria Rilke se insigte in Letters to a young poet. word die invloed van letterkunde, visuale kuns en die genesende waarde van die verhaalvers bespreek. Die studie geskied binne die mitologiese en psigonalitiese raam werk wat onder meer geskep is in Roland Bartes In mythologies, Clarissa Pinkola Estés in Women who run with the wolves en Sigmund Freud se analise van Der Todestrieb. Die Leksikon van A. D. de Vries en J. E. Cirlot word deurgaans verskaf. (121-122 pages missing)

Includes abstract. / asylum story is a short literary novel set in South Africa in the year 2019. The protagonist is infected with a deadly new respiratory disease and being held in a quarantine facility near a fictional town in the Karoo. The novel spans a six-month period during which the protagonist becomes involved in an ultimately failed attempt to escape. The novel is partly inspired by the Department of Health's decision in 2007 to place patients with drug-resistant strains of tuberculosis into quarantine. Many patients died in this enforced captivity. Conditions in some facilities were reportedly very poor and in 2008 there was a high-profile escape from the Jose Pearson quarantine facility. Though the disease in the novel is not drug-resistant tuberculosis, it is something similar, and the response to the fictional disease is comparable in some ways to the real-life medical response to the TB scare. The novel is set in a universe that is similar but different to our own, allowing the exploration of universal themes without the constraint of a rigid representation of current reality.

Includes abstract.|Includes bibliographical references. / When Megan’s aged and addled father goes missing in Lahaina, Maui, where he has been living most of his adult life, she must decide whether and how she should help to find him. As a child, she knew him only through their two weeks together each December; as a young adult, she had to deal with the consequences of his alcoholism and her stepsister’s accusation that he molested her. Now Megan is fortyone, married to Steven and the mother of a young daughter, Jess; but she is her father’s only child and her stepmother needs her help. As Megan returns to Maui she recalls her Christmases with her father. Both good and bad memories are evoked as she searches for him: from the delights of snorkelling, the horrors of a cock fight, and the stories of the locals, to the beauty of the tropical landscape. We follow her as she visits the once-isolated community of Hansen’s disease sufferers at Kalaupapa, on Molokai; tracks down her stepsister where she is working at the landmark Pioneer Inn, and walks through the historical sites of ancient Lahaina, once the home of Hawaiian royalty. We discover what it is like to work at a commercial luau and how she became a chef on Kauai.

Includes bibliographical references. / This novel is about guilt, blame, truth, reconciliation, jazz, and goats. When we first meet them, the two main characters, Mia and Cassie, are grieving the loss of another character, Sam, to an act of random violence. Each bears some measure of indirect guilt in relation to Sam's death, and each finds ways to avoid confronting it. Herein lies the seed of the book's main theme: frustrated catharsis.

Includes abstract. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 242-244). / This novel tells the story of an eccentric, forty-six year old writer, critic and consultant, Norman Frye, whose speciality is all things culinary. He lives with his pet rat in a converted cellar below an early 20th century city town house in Kenilworth, Cape Town. The action takes place over fifty days as the central characters and their complicated lives interweave towards a resolution.

Includes abstract. / Patchwork is a fictional story told by a female character from her perspective as a child and as an adult. Its set in Zambia over two periods in time, the late seventies and the start of the millennium. It's the story of family ties and how a child can get caught up in the consequences of the actions and decisions adult's make. The story reveals how the effects of these consequences can manifest in the child's life for many years after the fact. Pumpkin is the result of a relationship between a teenage woman and a married man. The coming of age story reveals the impact growing up with a part-time father has on Pumpkin. Particularly the lengths she's prepared to go to explain her father's absence to her friends and the rejection she feels when one day her father ignores her in the street when he's with his legitimate family. Pumpkin's mother turns to alcohol as a shield from the heartache she suffers in her relationship with an older married man and Pumpkin is burdened with having to look after her mother. Pumpkin's life takes a turn when her father takes her to live with him in his marital home. Thrust into the hostile environment of her new home, Pumpkin finds herself trying to adjust to a different life. Caught between struggling to survive a new home, making new bonds, and experiencing life issues such as the death of a neighbour, Pumpkin also has to accept the fact that her parents will never be together when her mother sobers and gets married.