Guy Butler and South African culture

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dc.contributor.advisorVisser, Nicken_ZA
dc.contributor.authorWilliams, Elaineen_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2016-04-05T11:38:44Z
dc.date.available2016-04-05T11:38:44Z
dc.date.issued1989en_ZA
dc.description.abstractThis paper looks at Guy Butler's theories about English South Africans and the English language. I have outlined his reputation as a critical thinker, poet and scholar, with a view to understanding the role he has played as an individual in South African cultural politics. I have also tried to trace some of the social roots and implications of the ideas he puts forward and the social purposes these serve. These have been investigated from a 'political' and sociological perspective. I have concentrated on his socio-political discourses as they have appeared in conference papers, journal articles and newspaper articles and the media response to the ideas has also been analysed. Butler's poetry and more properly literary work is not a direct concern of this paper and is not given extensive attention. I have concluded that Butler's work is an interpretation of South African reality which serves the purpose of promoting a set of mythical goals and purposes for English South Africans based on the founding myth of the 1820 settlers in the Eastern Cape.en_ZA
dc.identifier.apacitationWilliams, E. (1989). <i>Guy Butler and South African culture</i>. (Thesis). University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of English Language and Literature. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/18589en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitationWilliams, Elaine. <i>"Guy Butler and South African culture."</i> Thesis., University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of English Language and Literature, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/18589en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationWilliams, E. 1989. Guy Butler and South African culture. University of Cape Town.en_ZA
dc.identifier.ris TY - Thesis / Dissertation AU - Williams, Elaine AB - This paper looks at Guy Butler's theories about English South Africans and the English language. I have outlined his reputation as a critical thinker, poet and scholar, with a view to understanding the role he has played as an individual in South African cultural politics. I have also tried to trace some of the social roots and implications of the ideas he puts forward and the social purposes these serve. These have been investigated from a 'political' and sociological perspective. I have concentrated on his socio-political discourses as they have appeared in conference papers, journal articles and newspaper articles and the media response to the ideas has also been analysed. Butler's poetry and more properly literary work is not a direct concern of this paper and is not given extensive attention. I have concluded that Butler's work is an interpretation of South African reality which serves the purpose of promoting a set of mythical goals and purposes for English South Africans based on the founding myth of the 1820 settlers in the Eastern Cape. DA - 1989 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 1989 T1 - Guy Butler and South African culture TI - Guy Butler and South African culture UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/18589 ER - en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11427/18589
dc.identifier.vancouvercitationWilliams E. Guy Butler and South African culture. [Thesis]. University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of English Language and Literature, 1989 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/18589en_ZA
dc.language.isoengen_ZA
dc.publisher.departmentDepartment of English Language and Literatureen_ZA
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Humanitiesen_ZA
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Cape Town
dc.subject.otherEnglish language - South Africaen_ZA
dc.subject.otherLiterary Studiesen_ZA
dc.titleGuy Butler and South African cultureen_ZA
dc.typeMaster Thesis
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