| | | Document Type | : | Latin Dissertation | | Language of Document | : | English | | Record Number | : | 53565 | | Doc. No | : | TL23519 | | Call number | : | 1463720 | | Main Entry | : | Bernard Ayo Oniwe | | Title & Author | : | Portraits of the hybrid tragic protagonist in selected metaphysical plays by Wole SoyinkaBernard Ayo Oniwe | | College | : | University of South Carolina | | Date | : | 2009 | | Degree | : | M.A. | | student score | : | 2009 | | Page No | : | 75 | | Abstract | : | This thesis will argue for hybridism in Wole Soyinka's dramatic construct of the tragic hero. In most of his so-called metaphysical plays, those that are played out within the Yoruba ritual and mythical worldview, Soyinka appropriates, reconstitutes and extend limits of the received Western canon's conception of the tragic hero. Soyinka achieves this literary landmark by creating tragic heroes via an eclectic mix of features derived from the Western hero archetypes like Dionysius, Christ as well as Ogun, the Yoruba god who occupies prominent place among the Yoruba pantheon of gods. | | Subject | : | Language, literature and linguistics; Jesus Christ; Dionysos; Hybrid; Ogun; Sacrifice; Wole Soyinka; Nigeria; African literature; 0316:African literature | | Added Entry | : | K. Dawes | | Added Entry | : | University of South Carolina |
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