Critical perspectives on Chinua Achebe / edited by C.L. Innes & Bernth Lindfors

Object Details

Author

Innes, Catherine Lynette

Lindfors, Bernth

Subject

Achebe, Chinua Criticism and interpretation

Contents

Introduction -- General essays. The tragic conflict in the novels of Chinua Achebe / Abiola Irele -- Cultural norms and modes of perception in Achebe's fiction / Lloyd W. Brown -- Politics and the African writer / Kolawole Ogungbesan -- The palm-oil with which Achebe's words are eaten / Bernth Lindfors -- Language and action in the novels of Chinua Achebe / Gareth Griffiths -- Things fall apart. Yeats and Achebe / A.G. Stock -- Narrative techniques in Things fall apart / Solomon O. Iyasere -- Language, poetry and doctrine in Things fall apart / C.L. Innes -- Symbolic structure in Things fall apart / Donald J. Weinstock and Cathy Ramadan -- Fire and transition in Things fall apart / Bu-Buakei Jabbi -- No longer at ease. Language as a theme in No longer at ease / Felicity Riddy -- Eliot and Achebe : an analysis of some formal and philosophical qualities of No longer at ease / Roderick Wilson --

Arrow of God. The human dimension of history in Arrow of God / Emmanuel Obiechina -- Idols of the den / M.M. Mahood -- Mister Johnson and the complexity of Arrow of God / Robert M. Wren -- A source for Arrow of God / Charles Nnolim -- A source for Arrow of God : a response / C.L. Innes -- A man of the people. Achebe's African parable / Bernth Lindfors -- A man of the people / David Carroll -- Chinua Achebe : a man of the people / Ngugi wa Thiong'o -- Poetry. Chinua Achebe's Poems of regeneration / Philip Rogers

1978

C1978

Type

Books

Physical description

315 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 24 cm

Place

Nigeria

Smithsonian Libraries

Topic

In literature

Record ID

siris_sil_952734

Metadata Usage (text)

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