Touching Brýnstone

Title: Touching Brýnstone
Creator: Woudstra, Ruth
Subject: South African fiction (English) -- 21st century
Subject: Short stories, South African (English) -- 21st century
Subject: South African poetry (English) -- 21st century
Subject: Creative writing (Higher education)
Subject: Diaries -- Authorship
Subject: English language -- Writing
Date Issued: 2012
Date: 2012
Type: Thesis
Type: Masters
Type: MA
Identifier: vital:2504
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1015032
Description: Touching Brýnstone is the story of Beth, a young journalist who is troubled by misfortunes in her family and work circumstances. In a Pretoria library she is seduced by a book that consoles her and progressively becomes a fetish object. It sparks a journey to Japan, where she arrives to teach English. She is intent on meeting the author, whom she confounds with protagonist and book. This Bildungsroman is an exploration of the complex relationship between inner and outer self, and the struggle towards wholeness. Beth must find a way out of the obsession so that she can return to South Africa with an enriched insight into her shadow self.
Format: 233 leaves
Format: pdf
Publisher: Rhodes University
Publisher: Faculty of Humanities, Institute for the Study of English in Africa
Language: English
Rights: Woudstra, Ruth

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