The rhetorical implications of Chinua Achebe's Things fall apart / Emmanuel Edame Egar.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Egar, Emmanuel Edame.

Contributor:

Achebe, Chinua.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Achebe, Chinua. Things fall apart.

Achebe, Chinua.

English language--Rhetoric.

English language.

English language--Nigeria--Rhetoric.

Igbo (African people) in literature.

Achebe, Chinua--Technique.

Technique.

Rhetoric.

Nigeria--In literature.

Nigeria.

Fiction--Technique.

Fiction.

Physical Description:

xviii, 75 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, [2000]

Summary:

In Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe articulates and dramatizes a unique and peculiar kind of rhetoric- a rhetoric that emphasizes that man, and not language, is the site for social interaction. The oracle and the bull are synthesized, metamorphosed, laced, and condensed to form an alchemy which produces a cohesive communal community as the end result. This African rhetoric displays a language that is innocent, unlike the Western European rhetoric where language dramatizes multiple voices. This critical text focuses on Achebe's rhetoric from the Aristotelian style.

Contents:

Chapter 1 Rhetorical Implications of the Theme in Things Fall Apart 1

Chapter 2 Okonkwo 13

Chapter 3 The Rhetorical Implications of Women and their Pain in Things Fall Apart 17

Chapter 4 The Rhetorical Use of Proverbs 27

Chapter 5 The English Version of Ibo Telling 35

Chapter 6 The Rhetorical Implications of the Greek Connection in Things Fall Apart 43

Chapter 7 The Omniscient Editor and Narrator 51

Chapter 8 The Rhetorical Implications of the Opening and Closing of the Novel, Things Fall Apart 59.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [71]-75).

Related Work:

Achebe, Chinua. Things fall apart.

ISBN:

0761817212

OCLC:

43757584