Degree awarded with distinction on 11 December 1997
'n Verhandeling ingelewer ter voldoening aan die vereistes vir
die graad Magister Artium in die Departement van Afrikaans en
Nederlands by die Universiteit van die Witwatersrand.
Johannesburg, 1997 / This dissertation investigates the canonized criticism on Etienne
Leroux's Sewe dee by die S'ilbersteins (1962) from the time of the
novel's publication up to the 1980's. The most important
analytical strategies that were implemented in this period
become, in themselves, the topic of research. The study at hand
claims that the allegorical structure of the novel, wi th its
subsequent distinction between surface and substructure leads to
irreconcilable re&dfngs. The critics either link the view of life
presented b~ the novel to a limited number of imtedded fields of
reference, or they present all of these fields without
questioning any conflicting claims to truth. In this dissertation
the novel is approached from an existentialist perspective from
which all claims to truth are relativised, and the focus shifts
to the narrative itself. This reading strategy departs to a large
extent from existing approaches that concentrate on the
substructure.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:wits/oai:wiredspace.wits.ac.za:10539/20600 |
| Date | 14 July 2016 |
| Creators | Basson, Anton Verdeaux |
| Source Sets | South African National ETD Portal |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
| Format | application/pdf |
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