In it he presents a colonial narrative using English as its primary mode of communication. The situation is similar to that of a tragic hero whose tragic fall is necessitated only by the combination of a tragic flaw in his character and the uncontrollable forces working against him.
It depicts pre-colonial life in the southeastern part of Nigeria and the arrival of Europeans during the late 19th century. It is seen as the archetypal modern African novel in English, and one of the first to receive global critical acclaim. Igbo, also called Ibo, people living chiefly in southeastern Nigeria who speak Igbo, a language of the Benue-Congo branch of the Niger-Congo language family. The Igbo may be grouped into the following main cultural divisions: northern, southern, western, eastern or Cross River, and northeastern.
The novel chronicles the life of Okonkwo, the leader of an Igbo community, from the events leading up to his banishment from the community for accidentally killing a clansman, through the seven years of his exile, to his return, and it addresses a particular problem of emergent Africa—the intrusion in the s of ……. Begin typing your search term above and press enter to search.
Structuralism is a method of interpreting and analysing such things as language, literature, and society, which focuses on contrasting ideas or elements of structure and attempts to show how they relate to the whole structure. A 'formal' explanation in linguistics derives properties of language structure from a set of principles formulated in a vocabulary of nonsemantic structural primitives, whereas a 'functional' explanation derives properties of language structure from human attributes that are not specific to language.
Functionalism, in linguistics, the approach to language study that is concerned with the functions performed by language, primarily in terms of cognition relating information , expression indicating mood , and conation exerting influence. Formalism analyses the structure of a text without focusing on the external factors such as authorship, social and cultural influence. However, structuralism connects the work of a particular author with works of similar structures whereas formalism only analyses one particular work at a time.
Defamiliarization refers to a writer's taking an everyday object that we all recognize and, with a wave of his or her authorial magic wand, rendering that same object weirdly unfamiliar to us—strange even. New Criticism was a formalist movement in literary theory that dominated American literary criticism in the middle decades of the 20th century.
Thereby, all three approaches incite a careful close reading of the text and dismiss any socio-historical context to the literary work. All schools see that literature is nothing but the use of language. And these are the similarities between such schools. While differences are: First of all, we have to consider that these theories developed in different times and places, so they asked different questions and. Comparison between the Three Schools Literary criticism is a method of analyzing literature by explaining the literary work to the readers.
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