Nature in Soyinka's Poetry: The Primary of Essence.

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dc.contributor.authorAdekoya, Olusegun Adesina
dc.contributor.otherBiodun, Jeyifo
dc.date.accessioned2014-02-18T13:55:30Z
dc.date.accessioned2018-10-27T14:55:24Z
dc.date.available2014-02-18T13:55:30Z
dc.date.available2018-10-27T14:55:24Z
dc.date.issued1987
dc.degree.awardPh.D. Literature-in-Englishen_US
dc.departmentPh.D. Literature-in-Englishen_US
dc.description.abstractThe central idea of this dissertation is that Nature is portrayed in Soyinka is poetry in essentialist terms as a paradox. The dissertation begins with a review of the criticism of Soyinka's poetry and goes on to an examination of Soyinka's theoretical and critical essays through which the specific nature his poetics is garnered- a mythopoeia. This is followed by an examination of Soyinka's published volumes of poetry. Idanre and Other poems embodies the twin principle of creation and destruction, with the tragic aspect being more dominant, A Shuttle in the Crypt is an extension of the idea of the prevalence of evil in human nature to the problems of a strife-torn between 1967 and 1970. Ogun Abibiman demonstrates the permanence of change in nature and history. The thesis then goes on to compare Soyinka and Negritude, on the one hand, and Soyinka and British Romanticism, on the other, primarily on the basis of their attitudes to nature, and the personal, historical and cultural factors which underlie the affinities and differences discoverable between Soyinka and these literary movements. The conclusion, a gathering of the salient points of the preceding chapters, draws attention to the cultural concepts and themes that Soyinka has derived from nature: paradox and ambiguity; wholeness and continuity.en_US
dc.facultiesartsen_US
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dc.identifier.citationAPAen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/2629
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.pages.totalpages325pen_US
dc.publisherObafemi Awolowo Universityen_US
dc.subjectpoetryen_US
dc.subjectessaysen_US
dc.subjectNegritudeen_US
dc.subjectmythopeiaen_US
dc.titleNature in Soyinka's Poetry: The Primary of Essence.en_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
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