Critical Theory and African Literature
Author : Ernest Emenyo̲nu
Publisher :
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 34,87 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
Author : Ernest Emenyo̲nu
Publisher :
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 34,87 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 16,80 MB
Release : 1994
Category :
ISBN : 9780852555194
Author : Eldred D. Jones
Publisher : James Currey Publishers
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 20,79 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN :
North America: Africa World Press
Author : Eldred Durosimi Jones
Publisher : Africa Research and Publications
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 39,57 MB
Release : 1995-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780865434417
An analysis of the literary criticism of modern African Literature.
Author : Lois Tyson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 33,56 MB
Release : 2012-09-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1136615563
Critical Theory Today is the essential introduction to contemporary criticial theory. It provides clear, simple explanations and concrete examples of complex concepts, making a wide variety of commonly used critical theories accessible to novices without sacrificing any theoretical rigor or thoroughness. This new edition provides in-depth coverage of the most common approaches to literary analysis today: feminism, psychoanalysis, Marxism, reader-response theory, new criticism, structuralism and semiotics, deconstruction, new historicism, cultural criticism, lesbian/gay/queer theory, African American criticism, and postcolonial criticism. The chapters provide an extended explanation of each theory, using examples from everyday life, popular culture, and literary texts; a list of specific questions critics who use that theory ask about literary texts; an interpretation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby through the lens of each theory; a list of questions for further practice to guide readers in applying each theory to different literary works; and a bibliography of primary and secondary works for further reading.
Author : Chinyere Nwahunanya
Publisher : Arbi Pres
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 17,4 MB
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9780979238680
Nwahunanya examines major issues in contemporary literary criticism and critical theory especially as they concern African literature. Both diachronic and synchronic in his approach, he addresses mainstream issues that come under the purvey of literary criticism and literary history, the aesthetics of African poetry and the relationship between African dramatists and dramatists of the Absurd.
Author : Jean-Paul Rocchi
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 45,21 MB
Release : 2018-08-24
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1783484004
This book explores how contemporary black literature challenges theoretical approaches of race, gender and sexualities.
Author : Lois Tyson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 12,62 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0415974097
This new edition of the classic guide offers a thorough and accessible introduction to contemporary critical theory. It provides in-depth coverage of the most common approaches to literary analysis today: feminism, psychoanalysis, Marxism, reader-response theory, new criticism, structuralism and semiotics, deconstruction, new historicism, cultural criticism, lesbian/gay/queer theory, African-American criticism, and postcolonial criticism. The chapters provide an extended explanation of each theory, using examples from everyday life, popular culture, and literary texts; a list of specific questions critics who use that theory ask about literary texts; an interpretation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby through the lens of each theory; a list of questions for further practice to guide readers in applying each theory to different literary works; and a bibliography of primary and secondary works for further reading. This book can be used as the only text in a course or as a precursor to the study of primary theoretical works. It motivates readers by showing them what critical theory can offer in terms of their practical understanding of literary texts and in terms of their personal understanding of themselves and the world in which they live. Both engaging and rigorous, it is a "how-to" book for undergraduate and graduate students new to critical theory and for college professors who want to broaden their repertoire of critical approaches to literature.
Author : Chidi Amuta
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 15,3 MB
Release : 2017-06-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1786990032
This groundbreaking work, first published in 1989, was one of the first to challenge the conventional critical assessment of African literature, and remains highly influential today. Amuta's key argument is that African literature can be discussed only within the wider framework of the dismantling of colonial rule and Western hegemony in Africa. In exploring the possibility of a dialectical, alternative critical base, he draws upon both classical Marxist aesthetics and the theories of African culture espoused by Fanon, Cabral and Ngugi. From these explorations, Amuta derives a new language of criticism, which is then applied to works by modern African writers as diverse as Achebe, Ousmane, Agostinho Neto and Dennis Brutus. Amuta's highly original and innovative approach remains relevant not only for assessing the literature of developing countries, but for Marxist and postcolonial theories of literary criticism more generally. The author's elegance of argument and clarity of exposition makes this a distinguished and lasting contribution to debates around cultural expression in postcolonial Africa.
Author : Caroline Rooney
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 45,29 MB
Release : 2004-01-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1134558856
This book marks an important contribution to colonial and postcolonial studies in its clarification of the African discourse of consciousness and its far-reaching analyses of a literature of animism. It will be of great interest to scholars in many fields including literary and critical theory, philosophy, anthropology, politics and psychoanalysis.