"The Splendours of Imagination." The Transformative and Regenerative Power of Myth in Soyinka's and Walcott's Theatre
type: CreativeWork
description: Through the rediscovery of the transformative and therefore 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.
abstract: Through the rediscovery of the transformative and therefore 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.
author: Bada, Valérie
language: en
keywords: Derek Walcott, Wole Soyinka, myth, Arts & humanities, Literature, Arts & sciences humaines, Littérature
date published: 1996-06
date modified: 2026-07-24T02:49:32Z
provider: Université de Liège
publisher: Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
type: WebPage
source organization: ULiège - Université de Liège