Horisonne : mites oor die moontlike in kontemporêre verhalende tekste van Suid-Afrika en die Nederlandse taalgebied

Thesis (Ph.D. (Applied Language and Literary Studies))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2004. ; This is a qualitative and comparative study of contemporary myths of the horizon in South Africa and the Dutch language area, with specific reference to the 1990s and the millennium. It has been established that all myths possess a horizon of the possible. Myths function as paradigms in terms of which phenomena and events can be explained, but also as paradigms for narratives. A mythology serves as a narrative matrix within which smaller, particular narratives can be created. The qualit... Mehr ...