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Structural Models and African Poetics: Towards a Pragmatic Theory of Literature (Routledge Library Editions: Literary Theory) - Hardcover

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Anozie, Sunday O.

 
9781138685291: Structural Models and African Poetics: Towards a Pragmatic Theory of Literature (Routledge Library Editions: Literary Theory)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1138685291 ISBN 13: 9781138685291
Publisher: Routledge, 2016

Synopsis

In this pioneering work, first published in 1981, Sunday O. Anozie examines the relevance of structuralism and semiology to literary criticism in general and to African poetics in particular. Behind the growing body of African literature lies an immense reservoir of oral tradition for which the proper tools of analysis and interpretation have yet to be found. This book represents the first comprehensive full-scale exposition, analysis and critique of structuralism by a non-Western and non-European scholar. From an African viewpoint, it examines the roles to be played by structuralism and post-structuralism in the development of the general principles governing poetics and literary creativity in Africa. This title will be of interest to students of literature and literary theory.

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Sunday O. Anozie

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2016
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1138685291
ISBN 13 
9781138685291
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
352