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The nouvelles of Henry James : a phenomeno-generic approach

  • Authors: Bijker, Antony Jan
  • Date: 1979
  • Subjects: Novelists, American -- 19th century -- Diaries , James, Henry, 1843-1916 -- Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc. , James, Henry, 1843-1916 -- Diaries
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , Thesis , Masters , MA
  • Identifier: vital:2168 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1001819
  • Description: From Introduction: The present work is about the nouvelles of Henry James and not about phenomenology. That is to say that I am more concerned with James's use of the form of the nouvelle than with the illustration of a method. But, as Roland Barthes has pointed out: "How can we tell the novel from the short story, the tale from the myth, suspense drama from tragedy ... without reference to a common model? Any critical attempt to describe even the most specific, the most historically orientated narrative form implies such a model. "I Hence, because phenomenology is somewhat alien to the Anglo-American critical sensibility, I must temporarily reverse this emphasis and discuss the phenomenological "model" that underlies my investigation of James and the nouvelle form. Elsewhere phenomenological theory will take precedence only when it throws light on what is a highly elusive genre.
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The university and the new foreigners

Protest in fiction : an approach to Alex la Guma

  • Authors: Cornwell, David Gareth Napier
  • Date: 1979
  • Subjects: La Guma, Alex , South African literature (English) -- Black authors -- History and criticism , Protest literature, South African (English) -- History and criticism
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , Thesis , Masters , MA
  • Identifier: vital:2169 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1001820
  • Description: From Introduction: Thus for the black South African, the act of creative writing is inescapably a form of political action, and unless he turns his back on the reality which confronts him and retreats into a private imaginary world, it is also a form of social action, Yet Ezekiel Mphahlele has rightly cautioned that "creating an imaginary world" can never be an effective substitute for social act ion . Composing fictions about social and political problems is an indubitably oblique way of seeking a solution to them, and even the tendentious recreation of reality is only a metaphor for its actual transformation. Protest writing in South Africa is paradoxically a form of social action which is also only a parasitical imitation of social action, and therefore its avoidance . The freedom of literary creation described above is ambiguously not only a freedom to express reality, but also a freedom from the constraints of reality. And this suggests why the outlaw was such an important symbol to an earlier generation of rather more self-conscious writers.
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High-Mg tholeiitic rocks and their significance in the Karroo Central Province

  • Authors: Eales, Hugh V , Marsh, Julian S
  • Date: 1979
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , article
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/${Handle} , vital:36916 , https://hdl.handle.net/10520/AJA00382353_5039
  • Description: Averages for the composition of dolerites from the Southern and Eastern Cape, and the correlative basaltic lavas of the Stormberg, are presented for major elements and 8 of the more significant trace elements. The remarkable correspondence between these averages is indicative of the uniformity in composition of the magma emplaced over a very large area.
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Base-metal mineralization in alkaline pyroclastics: the Regenstein Vent, South West Africa

  • Authors: Ferreira, C A M , Jacob, Roger E , Marsh, Julian S
  • Date: 1979
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , article
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/133220 , vital:36950 , https://hdl.handle.net/10520/AJA10120750_1123
  • Description: Geochemical analysis of soil samples taken from the area underlain by the Regenstein alkaline diatreme indicated potential areas for Pb-Zn-Ag mineralization, and these were subsequently proved by drilling. The pipelike body, emplaced into quartzites of the Damara Supergroup, consists of lithic and volcanic breccias. The breccias have been intruded, first by phonolite dykes, and then by numerous bodies of alkaline mafic and ultramafic rocks.
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Anglican missionary policy in the diocese of Grahamstown under the first two bishops, 1853-1871

  • Authors: Goedhals, Mary Mandeville
  • Date: 1979
  • Subjects: Anglican , Diocese , Grahamstown , Bishops , Missionary policy , Cattle Killing , Government , Education , Black people , John Armstrong , Henry Cotterill
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , Thesis , Masters , MA
  • Identifier: vital:1211 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1001540
  • Description: In 1843 a committee of the Colonial Bishroprics Fund appointed to investigate the state of the Church of England at the Cape of Good Hope, recommended the formation of a bishopric, and suggested that the bishop settle in the eastern districts of the colony, with an archdeacon in Cape Town. Three significant principles had been enunciated: the church was to grow under a bishop, the church would have a dual mission to blacks and whites, and the colony's eastern frontier, long a political and military headache, was seen as the focus of a new and spiritual battle. Contact between Nguni tribesmen and the eastward-moving European trekboer began in the region of the Fish River during the rule of the Dutch East India Company. Cattle and land were the main ingredients of the frontier conflict. From the point of view of the white settler, the growing cattle trade meant an increased need for pasture, but although the motive for expansion was economic, frontiersmen had come to regard large lands as their birthright. The semi-nomadic pastoral economy of the Nguni also required abundance of land, which was vested in the tribe. To the tribesmen, their cattle had a political, social and religious significance which transcended the economic. Cattle were sacrificed to the ancestors to propitiate the shades of the departed and to secure the prosperity of the tribe. The years of conflict, the constant threat to their herds and their land, undermined the basis of Nguni society, without providing it with a new foundation.
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Rhodes Staff Association : questions for the Vice-Chancellor

  • Authors: Henderson, Derek Scott
  • Date: 1979
  • Language: English
  • Type: text
  • Identifier: vital:7394 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1017283
  • Description: Rhodes Staff Association : questions for the Vice-Chancellor, 1979
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Die vooruitsig vir Rhodes Universiteit vir 1979

  • Authors: Henderson, Derek Scott
  • Date: 1979
  • Language: Afrikaans
  • Type: text
  • Identifier: vital:7390 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1017279
  • Description: Rhodes Universiteit gaan nog 'n Nuwe Jaar tegemoet, versterk en bemoedig deur die gebeure en behalings wat agter ons le. Ons het so pas, byvoorbeeld, 'n eeu van tersiere opvoeding in Grahamstad herdenk. Dit was eers in 1904 dat die baanbrekende Kollege-afdeling van St Andrew's plek gemaak het vir die nuwe Rhodes-Universiteitskollege. In September 1979 sal ons die 75ste herdenking van daardie gebeurtenis vier met 'n week van feestelikhede, insluitende 'n spesiale gradeplegtigheid, lesings, vertonings en musiek- en dramauitvoerings.
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The nature and function of setting in Jane Austen's novels

  • Authors: Kelly, Patricia Marguerite Wyndham
  • Date: 1979
  • Subjects: Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 , English fiction , Eighteenth century , Novel , Setting , Northanger Abbey , Pride and Prejudice , Mansfield Park , Emma
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , Thesis , Masters , MA
  • Identifier: vital:2172 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1001823
  • Description: This study examines the settings in Jane Austen's six novels. Chapter I introduces the topic generally, and refers briefly to Jane Austen's aims and methods of creating her settings. Short accounts are given of the emphasis put on setting in the criticism of Jane Austen's work; of the chronology of the novels; and of the use made of this aspect of the novel in eighteenth-century predecessors. Chapter II deals with the treatment of place in Northanger Abbey, Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park and Emma. The consideration of five novels together makes it possible to generalize about aspects of place common to all , and to discuss particulars peculiar to individual novels without, I hope, excessive repetition. The chapter may be thought disproportionately long, but this aspect of setting is most prominent and important in the delineation of character. Chapter III discusses the handling of spatial detail and time in these five novels. Chapter IV offers a fuller analysis of what is the chief concern of this thesis, the nature and function of setting, in respect of the single novel Persuasion, and attempts to draw together into a coherent whole some of the points made in Chapters II and III. Persuasion separates conveniently from the other works, not only because it was written after them, but more importantly because in it there is a new development in Jane Austen's use of setting. Some critics, notably E.M. Forster and B.C. Southam, have found startlingly new qualities in the setting of Sanditon, and, certainly, the most striking feature of the fragment is the treatment of place. But Jane Austen left off writing Sanditon in March 1817 because of illness, and the twelve chapters make up too small and unfinished a piece to be considered in the same way as the other novels. The Watsons, too, except for some references to it in Chapter I, does not come within the scope of this dissertation. Another introductory point needs to be made briefly. Where it is necessary, the distinction between Jane Austen and the omniscient narrator is observed, but generally, partly because it is clear that Jane Austen's values are close to those of the narrator, and partly because it is convenient, traditional and sensible to do so, the name "Jane Austen" is used to refer both to the actual person and to the narrator of the novels.
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A study of some aspects of the poor white problem in South Africa

New chemical analyses of the Suurberg volcanic rocks and their significance in relation to Mesozoic volcanism in Southern Africa

  • Authors: Marsh, Julian S , Lock, B E , Fuchter, W H
  • Date: 1979
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , article
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/133231 , vital:36951
  • Description: Volcanic rocks are found associated with several of the late Mesozoic basins of southern South Africa. Bentonites are known from Plettenberg Bay and, according to an unconfirmed report, they are also found in the Worcester Basin, while vitric tuffs have been recorded from east of Oudtshoorn. The most extensive occurrences, however, are those of the Suurberg Group, which crops out sporadically around the margins of the Algoa Basin.
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Graaff-Reinet and the Great Depression (1929-1933)

  • Authors: Minnaar, Anthony de V
  • Date: 1979
  • Subjects: Graaff-Reinet (South Africa) -- History , South Africa -- Economic conditions -- 1918-1961
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , Thesis , Masters , MA
  • Identifier: vital:2518 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1001847
  • Description: The Depression of 1929-1933 was a world-wide phenomenon, in which "no aspect of the economy, no part of the world, escaped devastation". ¹ Accordingly the study of a medium sized rural town in South Africa during the period of the Depression, should show effects and reactions that were, in general, indicative of worldwide trends. In choosing Graaff- Reinet, I felt that being a close-knit community , with its urban and rural populations closely associated with each other, and the white, coloured and black sections of the population interdependent, it adequately represented a microcosm of South Africa as a whole. Then, too, Graaff- Reinet was ideally suited to illustrate the reality, that in South Africa during the Depression " the farmers were the most heavily hit of all". ² The single most significant product of the Graaff- Reinet district was wool, which at the time of the Depression was South Africa's second most important export, and consequently the well-being of the whole district depended largely on the market performance of this product . During the Depression the price of wool dropped drastically and the Graaff-Reinet farmers suffered in consequence . Graaff-Reinet also went, almost according to a blueprint, through the general phases of the Depression. The privations of the farming community led to the financial embarrassment of the local financial institutions causing their collapse , which in its turn led to the widespread hardship of everyone in the town. But these events all had a particular Graaff-Reinet quality, and the twists to the general outline are rooted deep in the local character of the district . Historically Graaff-Reinet is extremely interesting. It is the fourth oldest town in South Africa, being established in 1786, and in studying Graaf-Reinet one cannot but become conscious of the immense tradition and the awareness of history , which all its people have. The study itself starts with a general outline of the Worldwide Depre ssion, its causes and results, then moves on to the Depression in South Africa . The study of Graaff-Reinet in the Depression is divided into three basic sections, the Farmers, the Townspeople, and the Politics of Graaff-Reinet during the Depression. All three contain their own sub-divisions dealing with different aspects. In the Graaff-Reinet sections are included references to national events, tying them to, and explaining the course of, local happenings. In short the study becomes the story of how the Depression effected the people of Graaff-Reinet, how they suffered during this period and how they reacted to it. A final concluding section deals with their general recovery from the Depression. ¹ Heaton, H. : Kruger, D. W. The Economic History of Europe. p. 696. ²The Making of a Nation; a history of the Union of South Africa 19l0 - 1960. p. 158.
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Rhodes University Graduation Ceremony 1979

  • Authors: Rhodes University
  • Date: 1979
  • Language: English
  • Type: text
  • Identifier: vital:8113 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1004569
  • Description: Rhodes University Graduation Ceremony on Friday, 6th April, 1979 at 8 p.m. [and] on Saturday, 7th April, 1979 at 10:30 a.m. in the 1820 Settlers National Monument.
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Extinction as consummation: an exposition of Virginia Woolf's mataphysic of visionary relation

  • Authors: Ryan, Rory
  • Date: 1979
  • Subjects: Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941 , Virginia Woolf
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , Thesis , Masters , MA
  • Identifier: vital:2171 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1001822
  • Description: What follows is an attempt to circumscribe Virginia Woolf's ideas on life and death, the relation between self and all that which is not self, and the nature of reality, in short, Woolf's vision. I hope that whatever unity and structure may exist in the vision will not be overlooked, and moreover, I intend to avoid imposing a unity where none exists, whether the absence of unity is intentional or accidental
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Scientific theories : a philosophical analysis

  • Authors: Schwerin, Alan Kenneth
  • Date: 1979
  • Subjects: Science -- Philosophy , Logical positivism , Realism
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , Thesis , Masters , MA
  • Identifier: vital:2701 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1001976
  • Description: In this essay I have considered some of the philosophical problems involved in attempting to settle the question, What are scientific theories about? And in order to expose these problems, I have dealt with two influential responses to this question of the referents of scientific theories - namely, logical empiricism and realism.
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A comprehensive guide to conducting compensation surveys to determine competitive adjustments to base salary ranges

  • Authors: Snelgar, Robin John
  • Date: 1979
  • Subjects: Wage surveys , Wages
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , Thesis , Masters , MA
  • Identifier: vital:2896 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002060
  • Description: The compensation process is a complex network of sub-processes directed toward compensating people for services performed, and motivating them to obtain desired levels of performance. Among the intermediate components of this process are wage and salary payments, the awarding of other cost items such as insurance, vacations, sick leave, etc. (fringe benefits), and the provision of essentially non-cost rewards such as recognition, privileges and symbols of status. However, the broad subject of compensation in terms of cost to the organisation may be examined in two sections, namely, wage and salary administration, and fringe benefit administration. The compensation survey forms an integral part of both administration processes, and thus becomes a necessary and essential device in the determination of the final compensation package to the employee.
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An examination of the spatial variation of surficial sediment characteristics in the Howison's Poort Reservoir

  • Authors: Weaver, Alex van Breda
  • Date: 1979
  • Subjects: Howison's Poort Reservoir , South Africa , Sedimentation and deposition
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , Thesis , Masters , MA
  • Identifier: vital:4790 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1001890
  • Description: From Introduction: Lakes, estuaries and man-made water impoundments can be considered as intervening basins which provide for the temporary storage both of sediment and of water. Because of the potential energy of soil in elevated positions and because of the kinetic energy of water flowing under the influence of gravity, eroded material is eventually transported to the lowest possible level, i.e. the ocean deeps, or some intervening basin. This denudation process may be compared with Newton’s second law of thermodynamics which states that each system tends to move in the direction of lowest energy. Sedimentation in intervening basins may be seen as part of the natural process of landscape evolution. The rates at which sedimentation occurs may be strongly influenced by the activities of man.
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Bioavailability and activity of 0.1% amcinonide preparations: comparison with proprietary topical corticosteroid formulations of differing potencies

  • Authors: Woodford, R , Haigh, John M
  • Date: 1979
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , Article
  • Identifier: vital:6447 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006634
  • Description: The activity of a 0.1% amcinonide cream was compared with those of selected proprietary topical corticosteroid formulations of potencies differing according to the United Kingdom (U.K.) MIMS classification (very potent, potent and moderately potent) using a standard six hour vasoconstrictor assay with multiple reading times. Statistical analysis indicated that 0.1% amcinonide cream feU within the category of a very potent preparation. Three 0.1% amcinonide formulations (cream, combination cream and combination ointment, the last two containing anti-infective agents) were equipotent in the skin-blanching test.
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