Wole Soyinka: An Introduction to His WritingGarland, 1986 - 339 pagina's |
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Pagina 134
... mount heavenward to a sun - scorched sky , only to descend to earth in torrents of regenerative floods . One is reminded of the cosmic deluge in Idanre , which fertilized the womb of the earth so that seeds may swell and roots take hold ...
... mount heavenward to a sun - scorched sky , only to descend to earth in torrents of regenerative floods . One is reminded of the cosmic deluge in Idanre , which fertilized the womb of the earth so that seeds may swell and roots take hold ...
Pagina 164
... mounted warriors — single and clus- tered , kneeling priestesses , sacrificial scenes , royal pro- cessions . ( p . 204 ) The obviously contrived passages strike one as pedantic when Soyinka strives deliberately after poetic effects ...
... mounted warriors — single and clus- tered , kneeling priestesses , sacrificial scenes , royal pro- cessions . ( p . 204 ) The obviously contrived passages strike one as pedantic when Soyinka strives deliberately after poetic effects ...
Pagina 261
... Mount Kithairon . Then Pentheus surrenders himself to Dionysus and he is torn to pieces by the Maenads , Agave experiences deliriums and then self - recognition , and the miraculous transforma- tion of the severed head into a fount of ...
... Mount Kithairon . Then Pentheus surrenders himself to Dionysus and he is torn to pieces by the Maenads , Agave experiences deliriums and then self - recognition , and the miraculous transforma- tion of the severed head into a fount of ...
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of Idanre | 3 |
The Laments | 37 |
Idanre and Ogun Abibiman | 59 |
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Aafaa abyss action aesthetic African Literature Aiyero allusions artist Bacchae Bero Cartel characters child Chinweizu climax cosmic creative critics Crypt dance dark dawn dead death deity Demoke Dentist Dionysus divine drama earth Egbo Egbo's Elesin essay essence Euripides evokes experience fiction forces Forest Father Fourth Stage gods grey Half-Child harvest human Idanre ideology imagination Interpreters Iriyise James Gibbs Kadmos King's Horseman language Lewis Nkosi literary living London Madmen and Specialists Marxist means Mendicants metaphor metaphysical military moral Murano mystery mythic narrative nature Negritude Nigerian Nigerian Civil War night novel Obatala Ofeyi Ogboni Ogun Ogun's Olodumare Orunmila passage Pentheus play poem poem's poet poetic prison Professor quest rain revolutionary rites ritual archetypes road role Sango says Season of Anomy Sekoni Shage Shuttle social vision society Soyinka's poetry spirit stanza structure symbol Taiila theme tion Tiresias tragic transition Wole Soyinka women word worldview writer Yoruba Yoruba mythology