Literature and primordiality, illustrated with various texts. Both deal with the struggle between good and evil. Evil triumps on all fronts, until Mary intervenes in both plays. Lyric poetry - a study of Van de Vos Reynaerde with emphasis on the parody, satire and style, and its influence on other literatures. The aim of this course is to determine the extent to which anthologies published from 1993-1998 served to problematise the marked boundaries of Afrikaans poetry.
Students have to complete an essay based on the above or other anthologies from the same period.
An advanced introduction to the Minimalist Program, the most recent theory of Universal Grammar within the Chomskyan generative framework. In addition to the theoretical orientation, attention is given to several syntactic phenomena in Afrikaans and related languages. This course also forms part of the honours programme in the section Linguistics.