Jude Chudi Okpala

• Igbo Metaphysics in Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart

  Jude Chudi Okpala•ARTICLE•Callaloo•2002•Cited by: 2

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  I recognize in the critical history of Things Fall Apart three forms of hermeneutics. The first group reads the novel from a linguistic paradigm 1 and argues for the illegitimacy of any anthropological interpretation of the text. For this group, what is important is the symbolic nature of such a novel, which "continually restructures a variety of subtexts: cultural, political, historical and at times even biographical" (Quayson 123). The second g…

• Igbo Metaphysics in Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart

  Jude Chudi Okpala•ARTICLE•Callaloo•2002•Cited by: 2

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  I recognize in the critical history of Things Fall Apart three forms of hermeneutics. The first group reads the novel from a linguistic paradigm 1 and argues for the illegitimacy of any anthropological interpretation of the text. For this group, what is important is the symbolic nature of such a novel, which "continually restructures a variety of subtexts: cultural, political, historical and at times even biographical" (Quayson 123). The second g…

• Igbo Metaphysics in Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart

  Jude Chudi Okpala•ARTICLE•Callaloo•2002•Cited by: 2

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  I recognize in the critical history of Things Fall Apart three forms of hermeneutics. The first group reads the novel from a linguistic paradigm 1 and argues for the illegitimacy of any anthropological interpretation of the text. For this group, what is important is the symbolic nature of such a novel, which "continually restructures a variety of subtexts: cultural, political, historical and at times even biographical" (Quayson 123). The second g…

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