Portraits of the hybrid tragic protagonist in selected metaphysical plays by Wole Soyinka

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" Portraits of the hybrid tragic protagonist in selected metaphysical plays by Wole Soyinka "
Bernard Ayo Oniwe K. Dawes

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 Soyinka\ Bernard 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