Understanding Brecht and Soyinka
Author: Edde Maurice Iji
Publisher: Kraft Books Limited
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 238
ISBN-13:
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Critical Perspectives on Wole Soyinka
Author: Wole Soyinka
Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers
Published: 1980
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780914478492
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDistinguished scholars analyze the plays, poetry, and prose of Wole Smoyinka, winner of the Nobel Prize for literature in 1986. Essays trace his career and place his work in the general context of African literature.
Research on Wole Soyinka
Author: James Gibbs
Publisher: Africa World Press
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 386
ISBN-13: 9780865432192
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA broad introduction to the works of the Nobel Prize-winning Nigerian writer and the varieties of criticism they have elicited. There are many different critical methodologies represented, ranging from those concerned with verbal texture (linguistic, structural, and textual approaches) to those focusing on cultural context (historical, mythological, and comparative studies). Most of the articles were originally published in Research in African Literatures. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Perspectives on Wole Soyinka
Author:
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Published:
Total Pages: 274
ISBN-13: 9781617032530
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEssays that examine the aesthetics and the radical politics of one of Africa's greatest writers
Theatre/Theory/Theatre
Author: Daniel Gerould
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2003-11-01
Total Pages: 523
ISBN-13: 1476848807
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom Aristotle's Poetics to Vaclav Havel, the debate about the nature and function of theatre has been marked by controversy. Daniel Gerould's landmark work, Theatre/Theory/Theatre, collects history's most influential Eastern and Western dramatic theorists – poets, playwrights, directors and philosophers – whose ideas about theatre continue to shape its future. In complete texts and choice excerpts spanning centuries, we see an ongoing dialogue and exchange of ideas between actors and directors like Craig and Meyerhold, and writers such as Nietzsche and Yeats. Each of Gerould's introductory essays shows fascinating insight into both the life and the theory of the author. From Horace to Soyinka, Corneille to Brecht, this is an indispensable compendium of the greatest dramatic theory ever written.
Selected Essays and Reviews on African Literature and Criticism
Author: Victor O. Aire
Publisher:
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13:
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Author: Irving Brown (Consulting Bibliographer)
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-10-11
Total Pages: 546
ISBN-13: 1136119000
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn annotated world theatre bibliography documenting significant theatre materials published world wide since 1945, plus an index to key names throughout the six volumes of the series.
Soyinka's Language
Author: Ofoego, Obioma
Publisher: Kwara State University Press
Published: 2018-03-28
Total Pages: 370
ISBN-13: 978539204X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explores in depth the uses of language in Wole Soyinka’s plays, poetry and prose. The author approaches Soyinka’s works through meticulous close readings, giving the writer his due by capturing the complexities, ambiguities, and nuances of his language.
Wole Soyinka
Author: Anjali Gera Roy
Publisher:
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13:
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Wole Soyinka and Modern Tragedy
Author: Ketu Katrak
Publisher: Praeger
Published: 1986-06-24
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 0313240744
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe tragic drama of Nigeria's leading playwright, Wole Soyinka, is the focus of this in-depth study. Ketu H. Katrak explores Soyinka's concept of the tragic experience as it relates to Yoruba culture and analyzes the unique features of his theory of tragedy which blends Yoruba traditional drama with Western tragic forms. Opening with a biographical overview of Soyinka's life and career, Katrak addresses the major issues presented by Soyinka in his essay on tragedy, The Fourth Stage. These include the origin of tragic feeling, the components of the tragic experience, and the concretization of these abstract notions in the Yoruba god Ogun. The author demonstrates that it is through these themes and the elements of ritual and myth that Soyinka imparts communal values to his work, ultimately achieving a metaphysical level of expression. Katrak also discusses the element of the death of the protagonist in a number of Soyinka's plays and how it is beneficial for the community. The history of a community, a nation, and mankind, as it appears in other Soyinka plays, is also discussed. Throughout the work, the study of Soyinka's drama is balanced with an analysis of dramatic structure and stagecraft. Included are interviews and discussions with many of Nigeria's academicians, as well as with Soyinka himself.
