Sunday O Anozie

Structural Models and African Poetics

Towards a Pragmatic Theory of Literature

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Produktbeschreibung

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. 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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. August 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 671g
• ISBN-13: 9781138685291
• ISBN-10: 1138685291
• Artikelnr.: 69945847

Autorenporträt

Sunday O. Anozie

Inhaltsangabe

Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction: From Structuralism to Semiology
2. The Structuralist Perspective 3. The Concept of Time in Africa 4.
Diachrony and Synchrony 5. Aspects of Senghor's Poetic Theory 6. The
Poetics of the Mark 7. Roman Jakobson and Structuralism Poetics 8. A
Structural Analysis of Senghor's 'Le Totem' 9. Roland Barthes' Semiotic
Criticism 10. Some Post-Structuralist Theories and Developments 11.
Conclusion: Towards a Poetics of the Novel in Africa; Notes; Bibliography;
Index of Names; Index of Subjects