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Critical perspectives on Chinua Achebe / Edited by C. L. Innes & Bernth Lindfors.
LIBRA PR9387.9.A3 Z63
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Critical perspectives ; 4.
- Critical perspectives ; 4
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Achebe, Chinua--Criticism and interpretation.
- Achebe, Chinua.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Nigeria--In literature.
- Nigeria.
- Penn Provenance:
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 10 unnumbered pages, 315 pages, 3 unnumbered pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : portrait ; 24 cm.
- Edition:
- First Edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : Three Continents Press, 1978.
- Contents:
- General Essays. The tragic conflict in the novels of Chinua Achebe / Abiola Irele. Cultural norms and modes of perception in Achebe's fiction / Lloyd W. Brown. Politics and the African writers / Kolawole Ogungbesan. The Palm-Oil with which Achebe's words are eaten / Bernth Lindfors. Language and action in the novels of Chinua Achebe / Gareth Griffiths
- Things Fall Apart. Yeats and Achebe / A. G. Stock. Narrative techniques in Things Fall Apart / Solomon O. Iyasere. Language, poetry and doctrine in Things Fall Apart / C. K. Innes. Symbolic structure in Things Fall Apart / Donald J. Weinstock and Cathy Ramadan. Fire and transition in Things Fall Apart / Bu-Buakei Jabbi
- No Longer at Ease. Language as a Theme in No Longer at Ease / Felicity Riddy. Eliot and Achebe: An analysis of some formal and philosophical qualities of No Longer at Ease / Roderick Wilson
- Arrow of God. The human dimension of history in Arrow of God / Emmanuel Obiechina. Idols of the Den / M. M. Mahood. Mister Johnson and the complexity of Arrow of God / Robert M. Wren. A Source for Arrow of God / Charles Nnolim. A source for Arrow of God: A response / C. L. Innes
- Man of the People. Achebe's African Parable / Bernth Lindfors. A Man of the People / David Carroll. Chinua Achebe: A Man of the People / Ngugi wa Thiong'o
- Poetry. Chinua Achebe's Poems of Regeneration / Philip Rogers.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [294]-310) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- ISBN:
- 0914478451
- 091447846X
- OCLC:
- 4573502
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