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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Wole Soyinka"”.
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The theatre of promiscuity : a comparative study of the dramatic writings of Wole Soyinka and Howard Barker
… and analysis of selected dramatic writings by Wole Soyinka and Howard Barker. The comparative nature of this work begins by charting the parallel journeys of these writers - within widely differing cultural contexts - from a critique of social determinations which serve to define and bound …
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Seeds of Passage
… Prize winning play, Death and the Horsemen, by Wole Soyinka. The play is based on the incident that took place in 1946 in the western region of Nigeria, when the cosmological traditions of a colonizing power clashed with those of the indigenous culture. I use found (repurposed) objects to create …
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Mythology and allegory in drama:A comparative study of Ben Jonson and Wole Sonyinka
… use of allegory and mythology in the drama of Wole Soyinka and Ben Jonson with special focus on The Strong Breed and Death and the King’s Horseman by Soyinka and Pleasure Reconciled to Virtue and The Golden Age Restored by Jonson. The study uses close textual analysis through the Psychoanalytic …
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Mythology and allegory in drama:A comparative study of Ben Jonson and Wole Sonyinka
… use of allegory and mythology in the drama of Wole Soyinka and Ben Jonson with special focus on The Strong Breed and Death and the King’s Horseman by Soyinka and Pleasure Reconciled to Virtue and The Golden Age Restored by Jonson. The study uses close textual analysis through the Psychoanalytic …
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Indigenous tradition and the colonial legacy : a study in the social context of anglophone African literary criticism.
… consequences in his treatment of the writing of Wole Soyinka. The chapter on West African traditions examines a range of critical operations which are used in the construction of organic traditions based on oral or traditional cultures. These operations rely on mythopoesis, formalism and the …
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Mythologizing the transition : a comparative study of Bahram Beyzaee and Wolfe Soyinka
… playwright, screenwriter and filmmaker, and Wole Soyinka, the Nigerian poet, playwright, and novelist have produced artistic works that transcend the limitations of time and locality to become powerful comments on human life and socio-political and cultural institutions. This research study …
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By hotter winds : the road to Samarkand
… fantasy of Christopher Marlowe, Edgar Allan Poe, Wole Soyinka and James Elroy Flecker. We wanted to see the land and its people through their eyes, but also through our own. Our journey took us through a land of extremes: over the snowy peaks of the Hindu Kush and through the parched Karakum …
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"The Splendours of Imagination." The Transformative and Regenerative Power of Myth in Soyinka's and Walcott's Theatre
… fertile potentialities of mythical patters, Soyinka and Walcott transcend the allegedly petrifying character of tradition and enter a syncretic dimension of creativity capable of engendering a new cultural ethos.
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Towards a philosophy of theatre inspired by Aristotle’s poetics and post-structuralist aesthetics in relation to three South African plays
… within a British education system, produce a Wole Soyinka who transcends the propaganda of agit-prop by showing the parabolic arc of tragedy afflicted with peripeteia. The weight of African backwardness is not only the negative heritage of colonialism and slavery but Africa’s immersion in …