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Elie Wiesel's fictional universe : the paradox of the mute narrator

- Berman, Mona

  • Authors: Berman, Mona
  • Date: 1986
  • Subjects: Wiesel, Elie, 1928- -- Criticism and interpretation , Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives , Auschwitz , Narration , Silence , English literature , Criticism
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , Thesis , Masters , MA
  • Identifier: vital:2178 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1001829
  • Description: The approach I have chosen for my study is to analyse the narrative techniques in Wiesel's fiction, with particular emphasis on the role of the narrator and listener in the narratives. This will not only highlight aspects of his authorial strategy involving the reader's response to various dimensions of the Holocaust, but will allow an appraisal of the literary merit of Wiesel's novels. The hushed reverence that tends to accompany allusions to Auschwitz and its literature has impeded certain theoretical investigations, with the result that most critical studies undertaken on Wiesel's works have dealt predominantly with themes and content rather than with form. A narrative approach, however, while it accounts for themes, does so within the narrative process of the work. Form and content are examined as interwoven entities in the particular context of an individual work. My decision to adopt this pursuit is based on the conviction that Wiesel's fiction is a significant contribution to the literature of testimony, not only because of its subject matter, but also because of the way in which his narrators unfold their stories with words suspended by silence in the text. The paradox of the mute narrator, the title of my study, is intended to convey the paradoxical quality of Wiesel's fiction and to show how silence, which is manifested in the themes of his work, is concretized by his strategy of entrusting the transmission of the tale to narrators, who, for various reasons have been silenced. A mute by definition cannot emit an articulate sound. A narrator, on the other hand, is a storyteller who is reliant on verbal articulation for communication. This contradiction in terms is dramatized in the novels and is symptomatic of the dilemma of Wiesel's narrators who are compelled to bear testimony through their silence. In my study of Wiesel's fiction, I will follow the chronological sequence in which the novels were written, although I will not be using a developmental approach, except to point out that the trilogy which marks the beginning of his exploration into narrative strategies, and The Testament, the last book I will be dealing with, are a culmination of his previous fictional techniques. While a developmental analysis of his fiction, particularly from a thematic point of view, enables the reader to gain insight into his background, which is important in a comprehensive study of his works, I feel that this avenue of investigation has been competently dealt with by other critics. Ellen Fine's Legacy of Night, one of the first book-length studies of Wiesel, puts forward a convincing argument for examining his fiction in chronological sequence as a kind of serialized journey from being a witness in l'univers concentrationnaire to bearing - witness in a post-Holocaust world. Furthermore, it is possible to trace the direction Wiesel's fiction follows, as in each book the seeds are sown for new ideas which are expanded upon in subsequent books. My discussion, however, will deal with the narrative process of each novel as an individual work in its own particular context. Apart from the trilogy which is examined in one chapter, and The Testament which serves as a conclusion to the study, I have not used cross references to Wiesel's other fiction when analysing specific books. Moreover, I have deliberately avoided including Wiesel's comments on his works and references to them in his essays, interviews and non-fiction writing. The reason for this approach is that I consider each novel to be a separate narrative work which merits an interpretative response that is independent of the comparative criteria that has up to now influenced the assessment of his fiction. (Introduction, p. 12-14)
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Exit Organ Solo

- St Bede's Theological College Choir, Composer Not Specified, Dargie, Dave

Eyona ndab'inkulu

- Zionists, Composer not specified, Dargie, Dave

Failure and opportunity: small business in Grahamstown

- Wallis, Joe

  • Authors: Wallis, Joe
  • Date: 1986
  • Subjects: Grahamstown (South Africa) -- Commerce Grahamstown (South Africa) -- Economic conditions
  • Language: English
  • Type: Book , Text
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/1948 , vital:20241 , ISBN 0868101397
  • Description: In recent years there has been a growing appreciation of the contribution small business can make to economic development. This contribution is mainly derived from its responsiveness to change. The flexibility of small business thus enables it to respond to the changes in demand, technology and relative costs which occur in the economic development of many countries. Moreover, small business is often able to serve those areas and communities where markets are too small to support production on the scale undertaken by large enterprises. On the other hand, small business does exhibit a high rate of failure in most economies. The small business sector in Grahamstown is no exception and this paper initially addresses the problem of small business failure in the local economy. Section One discusses the role and significance of the small business sector in Grahamstown and examines the causes and consequences of the high rate of business failure recently experienced in this area. Section Two, presents case studies of three small businesses which have recently failed in Grahamstown. Despite their vulnerability and limited resources, small businesses are often the prime initiators of new industries and new markets. As new small firms start up they test out new products and techniques without committing large amounts of resources. Consequently, if they fail, they do not cause widespread disruption. They may therefore indicate possible opportunities for expanding production in particular sectors or areas of the economy. Section Three examines how a particular enterprise, Impact Management Services, may demonstrate the opportunity which local firms have to exploit Grahamstown's comparative advantage in the education sector by engaging in software development. The paper concludes by presenting some of the policy implications which seem to arise from the study. , Digitised by Rhodes University Library on behalf of the Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER)
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  • Date Issued: 1986

Father we adore You

- St. Bedes Theological Students, Composer not specified, Dargie, Dave

Financing university education in South Africa: the case for a student loan scheme

- Dollery, Brian

  • Authors: Dollery, Brian
  • Date: 1986
  • Subjects: Student loan funds -- South Africa Student aid -- South Africa
  • Language: English
  • Type: Book , Text
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/1752 , vital:20222 , ISBN 0868101443
  • Description: The fact that not all claims on the central government enjoy equal status in the eyes of policymakers has been vividly illustrated by the recent experience of South African universities. Indeed, it is not alarmist to describe the present financial position of these institutions as approaching a state of crisis. Consequently, there is an urgent need for members of the university community in this country to re-examine the whole question of university finance. The present paper attempts to address precisely this issue, and proposes a radical alternative to the current method of finance. A caveat must be added at the outset. First, the analysis will be restricted to universities per se although it could be extended mutatis mutandis to include some other institutions within the tertiary education sector, and secondly, the primary focus will fall on developing a broad framework rather than on a detailed examination of the minutiae of university funding. Section I evaluates the case for public intervention in the provision of university education, and the various alternative approaches to the problem of university finance are outlined in Section II. A specific proposal for the financing of university education is set out in Section III, together with a rebuttal of some of the more important objections to the scheme. The paper concludes with an overview of the central arguments in Section IV. , Digitised by Rhodes University Library on behalf of the Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER)
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  • Date Issued: 1986

For love and money: Beatrice Grimshaw's Passage to Papua

- Gardner, Susan Jane

Form and idea in the fiction and non-fiction of John Fowles

- Etter, Julie-Anne

  • Authors: Etter, Julie-Anne
  • Date: 1986
  • Subjects: Fowles, John, 1926-2005
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , Thesis , Masters , MA
  • Identifier: vital:2179 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1001830
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  • Date Issued: 1986

Gcobelani eNkosini

- St Bede's Theological College Choir, Composer Not Specified, Dargie, Dave

Gloria

- St Bede's Theological College Choir, Composer Not Specified, Dargie, Dave

Gloria

- St Bedi's Church Choir, Composer not specified, Dargie, Dave

Graphicacy and the third dimension: an investigation into the problem of poor performance in relief mapwork in South African secondary schools

- Burton, Michael St. John Whitehead

  • Authors: Burton, Michael St. John Whitehead
  • Date: 1986
  • Subjects: Graphicacy , Maps , Map reading , Visualisation , Geography , Secondary education , South Africa , Pupils , Learners , Teachers
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , Thesis , Masters , MEd
  • Identifier: vital:1358 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1001424
  • Description: Three-dimensional graphicacy is the part of map work that appears to be the most problematIcal. Bartz (1970) says that thinking and visualising in three-dimensional space is difficult enough, but trying to derive notions in three-dimensions, when you have only seen them as they are represented in distorted two-dimensional fashion, is even more difficult. Yet pupils of geography are required to learn such three-dimensional concepts from the two-dimensional distorted map presentations. The geography teacher has an important educational role to play in promoting graphicacy and Balchin (1965), who coined the term, felt that it should be an essential underpinning of an integrated education. The problem is that children perform badly, teachers are not successfully imparting three-dimensional graphicacy skills and as Board and Taylor (1977) indicate, for some time now it has been fashionable to dismiss maps as being irrelevant or useless in geographical research. This thesis attempts to analyse this reported malady, the problems are exposed and solutions offered. Investigation of the literature, with the aim of clarifying the problems involved, follows four leads. These are the part played by the map as a mode of communication, the physical processes involved in mapwork revealed by work in the realm of neurophysiology, the process of visualisation in the field of perception and psychology, and finally the stage of conceptual development of the mapworker. The state of affairs in South Africa is disclosed by an analysis of teacher-directed literature, of examination syllabuses, of text-book treatment of three-dimensional mapwork in South Africa and overseas, of past examination questions, and finally of teachers' views. Experimental exercises have been executed in an attempt to link the key findings of published research to the local scene. Conclusions are then drawn, and recommendations made for improving three-dimensional graphicacy in South African secondary schools.
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  • Date Issued: 1986

Gwayana raMwari rinobvisa Zvitadzo = Lamb of God which takes away the sins

- Mothers' Union, Composer not specified, Dargie, Dave, Hodgson, Janet

Halleluia

- Mothers' Union at Manche Masemola Pilgrimage, Composer not specified, Dargie, Dave, Hodgson, Janet

Hallelujah

- Zionist Group, Composer not specified, Dargie, Dave

  • Authors: Zionist Group , Composer not specified , Dargie, Dave
  • Date: 1986
  • Subjects: Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Lesotho Maseru f-lo
  • Language: Sesotho
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/298175 , vital:57672 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Dave Dargie Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , DD098-06
  • Description: Zionist Church Music with rattles, bell, bass drum and whistle accompaniment.
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  • Date Issued: 1986

Hallelujah

- St. Bedes Theological Seminary Congregation, Composer not specified, Dargie, Dave

Hallelujah Amen

- Zionist Group, Composer not specified, Dargie, Dave

Halleluya nank' umzimba

- St. Bedes Theological Students, Composer not specified, Dargie, Dave

Halleluyajah nguwe Jesu

- St. Bedes Theological Students, Composer not specified, Dargie, Dave

Hambani niyokuzenza abafundi zonk'intlanga

- Zionists, Composer not specified, Dargie, Dave

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