Dyadic Representation of Mythic Structures in Adichie's Americanah
Ikechukwu Otuu Egbuta
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Dyadic Representation of Mythic Structures in Adichie's Americanah

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This study isolates myth as one of the structural principles of literature. The mythic structures are perceived in dyadic figuration: the quest myth and the myth of the year god. The archetypal critical approach to the analysis of the characters in this study reveals that each character responds to a kind of cosmic phenomenon which has the capacity to produce in the observer flashes of instantaneous comprehensions. In Ifemelu, the observer is struck with the image of Aphrodite Pandemos; to Obinze, it is an unquenchable taste like that of Tantalus; and Aunty Uju is observed under the influence ...