Between No Longer at Ease and A Man of the People
Problematizing the analytical methods
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13048951 |
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| Authors | Virginia Obioma Eze (0000-0001-5552-8564, University of Nigeria, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 512-524 |
| Publication date | 2022-08-26 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of the African Literature Association (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2167-4736 • E-ISSN: 2167-4744 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/21674736.2022.2111778 |
| OpenAlex | W4293199677 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 11 |
This article interrogates those analytical approaches to Chinua Achebe’s No Longer at Ease and A Man of the People, which evaluate the worth of the texts based on assumptions, on one hand, and on the structures, on the other. The study posits that these kinds of analyses are insular and reductionist because they hinder the discovery of the potential hidden in the depths of the works. Using Paul Ricoeur’s hermeneutics depth semantics theory with its systematic and rigorous methodology of explanation and interpretation of poetic metaphor in the text, the texts’ structures and references are explained and the existential issues they raise exposed
Aesthetics · Argument (complex analysis · Art · Epistemology · Existentialism · Hermeneutics · Interpretation (philosophy · Linguistics · Literature · Metaphor · Poetry · Reductionism · Semantics (computer science · Sociology · Computer Science · Hermeneutics and Narrative Identity · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Narrative Theory and Analysis · Philosophy
Paul Ricoeur
Literary Theory
Hermeneutics and the Human Sciences
The theory of communicative action
Intellectuals, Politicians, and the Public in Chinua Achebe’s A Man of the People
The Fiction of Chinua Achebe
The idiom of plastic figures in Chinua Achebe's novels
Heidegger and the Modes of World-Disclosure
Interpretation Theory
| Highly cited | No |
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