Wole Soyinka: Tragic Classicism - Hardcover
by Adam Lecznar
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Availability:In StockContributor:Adam Lecznar, Laura Jansen (Editor)Series:Classical Receptions in Twentieth-Century WritingPublish date:2024-10-03Pages:176
Language:EnglishPublisher:Bloomsbury AcademicISBN-13:9781350249042ISBN-10:1350249041UPC:9781350249042Book Category:Literary Criticism, Drama, Literary CollectionsBook Subcategory:Ancient and Classical, African, Ancient, Classical & MedievalSize:9.21 x 6.14 x 0.44 inchesWeight:0.9215Product ID:SCYDVSGG4A
Wole Soyinka: Tragic Classicism
This book presents a new way of looking at Wole Soyinka's engagement with the classical past. Nigerian author and activist Wole Soyinka was the first Black African author to win the Nobel Prize for Literature (1986), and his oeuvre has become seminal to postcolonial literature. The frequent references to Greece and Rome that appear across Soyinka's writings, most explicitly in his 1973 play The...
Series: Classical Receptions in Twentieth-Century Writing
Language:EnglishPublisher:Bloomsbury AcademicISBN-13:9781350249042ISBN-10:1350249041UPC:9781350249042Book Category:Literary Criticism, Drama, Literary CollectionsBook Subcategory:Ancient and Classical, African, Ancient, Classical & MedievalSize:9.21 x 6.14 x 0.44 inchesWeight:0.9215Product ID:SCYDVSGG4A
Adam Lecznar is an Honorary Research Fellow at University College London, UK. He is the author of Dionysus after Nietzsche: The Birth of Tragedy in Twentieth-Century Literature and Thought (2020) and co-editor of Classicisms in the Black Atlantic (2020).
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