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Achebe's Things fall apart / Ode Ogede.
Van Pelt Library PR9387.9.A3 T5366 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ogede, Ode.
- Series:
- Reader's guides.
- Reader's guides
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Achebe, Chinua. Things fall apart.
- Achebe, Chinua.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 119 pages ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Continuum, 2007.
- Summary:
- Chinua Achebe's remarkable novel Things Fall Apart (1958) is probably the best known African novel and has become one of the world's most influential literary masterpieces. Since publication, a total of nearly 12 million copies have been sold, with translations into more than 50 languages. Despite its undoubted success, its apparent simplicity has tended to blind readers to the dazzling storytelling resources and the inventive language, plot, setting and characterization which first draw them to the novel and keep them reading. This introduction to the text is the ideal companion to study, offering guidance on: Literary and historical context, Language, style and form, Reading the text, Critical reception and publishing history, Adaptation and interpretation, Further reading.
- Contents:
- 1 The Contexts of Achebe's Writings 1
- 2 Unity and Variety in Structure, Language, Style and Form 17
- 3 Reading Things Fall Apart: The Communal World, the Embattled Zones of Conquest, and the Decline of Tradition 39
- 4 Critical Reception, Interpretation and Afterlife (Adaptation and Influence) 83.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 107-116) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780826490841
- 0826490840
- 9780826490834
- 0826490832
- OCLC:
- 144778686
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