Critical perspectives on Wole Soyinka
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Type of record: Book
Title: Critical perspectives on Wole Soyinka
Classmark: Banham Collection
Creator(s): Gibbs, James Lowell
Additional creator(s): Gibbs, James (1682-1754) (Editor)
Related people: Soyinka, Wole; Soyinka, Wole; Soyinka, Wole; Soyinka, Wole
Publisher: Three Continents Press
Publication city: Washington, D.C
Date(s): [1980]
Language: English
Size and medium: 274 pages
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/654935
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991003246399705181
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"An Original By Three Continents Press Inc."--Back of title page.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-272).
Introductory essays: -- The early writings of Wole Soyinka / Bernth Lindfors -- Tradition and the Yoruba writer: D.O. Fagunwa, Amos Tutuola and Wole Soyinka / Abiola Irele -- Plays: -- Demoke's choice in Soyinka's A dance of the forests / Nick Wilkinson -- Thoughts on creating the popular theatre / K.E. Senanu -- Soyinka's Brother Jero: prophet, politician and trickster / Richard Priebe -- Kongi's Harvest (a review) / Boyd M. Berry -- Language and meaning in Soyinka's The road / D.S. Izevbaye -- The asphalt god / Ronald Bryden -- A Nigerian original / Penelope Gilliat -- The exigencies of adaptation: the case of Soyinka's Bacchae / K.E. Senanu -- Amateurs in horror / Albert Hunt -- Mediation in Soyinka: the case of the king's horseman / D.S. Izevbaye -- Soyinka's new play / Gerald Moore -- Soyinka's "Beggars opera" / Mario Relich -- The fox's dance: the staging of Soyinka's plays / Annemarie Heywood.
Third-world drama: Soyinka and tragedy / Andrew Gurr -- Dramatic theory of Wole Soyinka / Ann B. Davis -- Poetry: -- Complexity and confusion in Soyinka's shorter poems / Roderick Wilson -- Mr. Wilson's interpretation of a Soyinka poem / M.J. Salt -- Poetry as revelation: Wole Soyinka / D.I. Nwoga -- In detentio preventione in aeternum: Soyinka's A shuttle in the crypt / C. Tighe -- A comment on Ogun Abibiman / Omolara Ogundipe-Leslie -- Poetics and the mythic imagination / Stanley Macebuh -- Wole Soyinka: obscurity, romanticism and Dylan Thomas / Robin Graham -- Prose: -- The interpreters: a form of criticism / Mark Kinkead-Weekes -- The man died / Peter Enahoro -- The man died / A.R. Crewe -- Soyinka's Black Orpheus / D.S. Izevbaye.
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