Research Catalog

Title

Tintinnabulation of literary theory : traversing genres to contemporary experience / Andrew Nyongesa.

Author

Nyongesa, Andrew Wafula, 1980-

Publication

• Chitungwiza, Zimbabwe : Mwanaka Media and Publishing Pvt Limited, [2018]
• [Oxford, UK] : African Books Collective, [2018]
• ©2018

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Details

Description

248 pages; 21 cm

Subject

• Literature > History and criticism > Theory, etc
• Criticism
• Marxist criticism
• Feminist literary criticism
• Postcolonialism
• Psychoanalysis and literature
• Feminist criticism
• literary criticism
• criticism
• postcolonialism
• Feminist criticism
• Criticism
• Feminist literary criticism
• Literature > Theory, etc
• Marxist criticism
• Postcolonialism
• Psychoanalysis and literature

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Chapter one: aspects of literary theory -- Chapter two: Marxist theory; 2.1 Introduction; 2:2 Marxism vis-a-vis the novel and the play; 2.3 Marxist critique of african poetry; 2.4 Marxist critique of oral literature; 2.5 Marxism and drama; 2:6 Conclusion -- Chapter three: the feminist theory; 3:1 Introduction; 3:2 Feminism and the novel; 3.5 Conclusion; 3:6 Feminist critique of oral literature; 3:7 Feminist critique of poetry -- Chapter four: postcolonial criticism; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Definition of post colonialism; 4:3 Postcolonialism in the novel and drama; 4.4 Postcolonialism and african poetry; 4.5 Postcolonialism and William Shakespeare; 4.6 Postcolonial critique of genres of oral literature; 4.7 Conclusion -- Chapter five: psychoanalytic theory; 5:1 Introduction; 5:2 Psychoanalysis and the novel; 5.3 Psychoanalysis and poetry; 5.4 Psychoanalysis and oral literature; 5:5 Split personality, the extension of psychoanalysis -- Chapter six: stylistics- the magic wand; 6:1 Introduction; 6:2 Definition of style and stylistics; 6:3 Distinction of literary works by style; 6:4 Stylistics and oral literature; 6.5 Conclusion -- Chapter seven: philosophy and contemporary African experience; 7.1 Introduction; 7.2 Cultural essentialism: a sordid boon at the shores of sub-Saharan Africa; 7:3 Postcolonialisn and the African experience; 7:4 Said's orientalism and the African reality; 7:5 Fanon's national culture and the African quandary; 7:6 Bhabha's hibridity and the ethnic divide in Africa; 7:7 Radical feminism and the African experience

ISBN

• 9780797496439
• 0797496432
• 9781779065148 (canceled/invalid)
• 1779065140 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2020337214

OCLC

• on1055680960
• 1055680960
• SCSB-9656351

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library