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The liberal ideology and some English South African novelists

This thesis has been written in an attempt to answer a question which came to mind when I first began reading white English south African literature. The question itself was quite simple: why is this literature like it is, and, more particularly, why is it a body of work whose quality is generally s...

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Main Author: Watson, Stephen
Other Authors: Glenn, Ian E
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Language:English
Published: Department of English Language and Literature 2015
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description This thesis has been written in an attempt to answer a question which came to mind when I first began reading white English south African literature. The question itself was quite simple: why is this literature like it is, and, more particularly, why is it a body of work whose quality is generally so mediocre? There is a general critical consensus that it is mediocre, and all the more so when it is judged in the light of standards set by modern European and American literature.
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spelling oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/12501 The liberal ideology and some English South African novelists Watson, Stephen Glenn, Ian E English This thesis has been written in an attempt to answer a question which came to mind when I first began reading white English south African literature. The question itself was quite simple: why is this literature like it is, and, more particularly, why is it a body of work whose quality is generally so mediocre? There is a general critical consensus that it is mediocre, and all the more so when it is judged in the light of standards set by modern European and American literature. 2015-02-17T12:56:24Z 2015-02-17T12:56:24Z 1980 Master Thesis Masters MA http://hdl.handle.net/11427/12501 eng application/pdf Department of English Language and Literature Faculty of Humanities University of Cape Town
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