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THE BLIND MEN AND THE ELEPHANT: And Other Essays in Biographical Criticism
By Bernth Lindfors, HARDCOVER  

Language: English      ISBN: N/A   ISSN: N/A   2019    | DOI: N/A
Difficulty: intermediate   Mood: all   
Content: non-academic
Africa World Press


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In an intellectual climate dominated by formalistic theoretical concerns, biographical criticism may seem an unfashionable mode of academic discourse, but it is sorely needed when writers and readers hail from different countries. A text may be so completely conditioned by its indigenous environment that it cannot be adequately grasped or appreciated without some knowledge of its creator and the circumstances that prompted its creation. Biographical criticism, by studying the human face behind the text, may thus assist us in the larger task of reading our fellow man.

Included among those individuals whose lives and works are examined here are Chinua Achebe, Dennis Brutus, Cyprian Ekwensi, Ngugu wa Thiong'o, Wole Soyinka, Amos Tutuola, Janheinz Jahn and Sartjee Baartman.


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THE BLIND MEN AND THE ELEPHANT: And Other Essays in Biographical Criticism
By Bernth Lindfors, HARDCOVER  

Language: English      ISBN: N/A   ISSN: N/A   2019    | DOI: N/A
Difficulty: intermediate   Mood: all   
Content: non-academic
Africa World Press


Purchase - USD79.95
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