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Journal articles on the topic "Christian poetry, Nigerian (English)"

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Egya, Sule E. "Eco-human engagement in recent Nigerian poetry in English." Journal of Postcolonial Writing 49, no. 1 (February 2013): 60–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17449855.2012.677404.

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Wawn, Andrew, and Judith N. Garde. "Old English Poetry in Medieval Christian Perspective: A Doctrinal Approach." Modern Language Review 89, no. 1 (January 1994): 182. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3733170.

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Gardner, Kevin J. "Parish of the Dead." Religion and the Arts 20, no. 5 (2016): 637–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685292-02005004.

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This essay offers an introduction to the poetry of Peter Scupham. Through close readings of individual poems, I demonstrate the beauty and formal accomplishment of his work, and I argue that his poetry embodies his sense of a living Christian tradition, one that also inheres in the English landscape. I further argue that this tradition connects the dead to the living, and the remote in time to more recent English history. The particular Christian ethos of Scupham’s poetry is one in which tradition, order, design, meaning, and essence are paramount.

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Egya, Sule E. "Art and Outrage: A Critical Survey of Recent Nigerian Poetry in English." Research in African Literatures 42, no. 1 (March 2011): 49–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.2979/ral.2011.42.1.49.

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Egya. "Art and Outrage: A Critical Survey of Recent Nigerian Poetry in English." Research in African Literatures 42, no. 1 (2011): 49. http://dx.doi.org/10.2979/reseafrilite.2011.42.1.49.

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Egya, Sule E. "Imagining Beast: Images of the Oppressor in Recent Nigerian Poetry in English." Journal of Commonwealth Literature 46, no. 2 (June 2011): 345–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0021989411404996.

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Bula, Andrew. "Literary Musings and Critical Mediations: Interview with Rev. Fr Professor Amechi N. Akwanya." Journal of Practical Studies in Education 2, no. 5 (August 6, 2021): 26–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.46809/jpse.v2i5.30.

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Reverend Father Professor Amechi Nicholas Akwanya is one of the towering scholars of literature in Nigeria and elsewhere in the world. For decades, and still counting, Fr. Prof. Akwanya has worked arduously, professing literature by way of teaching, researching, and writing in the Department of English and Literary Studies of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. To his credit, therefore, this genius of a literature scholar has singularly authored over 70 articles, six critically engaging books, a novel, and three volumes of poetry. His PhD thesis, Structuring and Meaning in the Nigerian Novel, which he completed in 1989, is a staggering 734-page document. Professor Akwanya has also taught many literature courses, namely: European Continental Literature, Studies in Drama, Modern Literary Theory, African Poetry, History of Theatre: Aeschylus to Shakespeare, European Theatre since Ibsen, English Literature Survey: the Beginnings, Semantics, History of the English Language, History of Criticism, Modern Discourse Analysis, Greek and Roman Literatures, Linguistics and the Teaching of Literature, Major Strands in Literary Criticism, Issues in Comparative Literature, Discourse Theory, English Poetry, English Drama, Modern British Literature, Comparative Studies in Poetry, Comparative Studies in Drama, Studies in African Drama, and Philosophy of Literature. A Fellow of Nigerian Academy of Letters, Akwanya’s open access works have been read over 109,478 times around the world. In this wide-ranging interview, he speaks to Andrew Bula, a young lecturer from Baze University, Abuja, shedding light on a variety of issues around which his life revolves.

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Anderson, Earl R. "The uncarpentered world of Old English poetry." Anglo-Saxon England 20 (December 1991): 65–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0263675100001757.

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Cultural archaism is often thought of as a natural concomitant of oral tradition, and by extension, of a literature that is influenced by oral tradition. In the case of Old English poetry, archaism might include residual pagan religious beliefs and practices, such as the funeral rites inBeowulfor the use of runes for sortilege, and certain outmoded aspects of social organization such as the idea of a state dependent upon thecomitatusfor military security. An example often cited is the adaptation of heroic terminology and detail to Christian topics. The compositional method in Cædmon's ‘Hymn’, for instance, is regarded by many scholars as an adaptation of panegyric epithets to the praise of God, although N. F. Blake has noted that heroic epithets in the poem could have derived their inspiration from the psalms. InThe Dream of the Rood, the image of Christ mounting the Cross as a warrior leaping to battle has been regarded variously as evidence of an artistic limitation imposed by oral tradition, or as a learned metaphor pointing to the divine and human nature of Christ and to the crucifixion as a conflict between Christ and the devil. The martyrdom of the apostles is represented as military conflict in Cynewulf'sFates of the Apostles, Christ and his apostles as king andcomitatusin Cynewulf'sAscension, and temptation by devils as a military attack inGuthlac A; these illustrate a point made by A.B. Lord concerning the nature of conservatism in oral tradition: ‘tradition is not a thing of the past but a living and dynamic process which began in the past [and] flourishes in the present’.

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Bately, Janet M. "Old English prose before and during the reign of Alfred." Anglo-Saxon England 17 (December 1988): 93–138. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s026367510000404x.

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Old English poetry had its origins in the pagan continental past of the Anglo-Saxons. The development of an Old English literary prose is generally supposed to have taken place many centuries later in Christian England. According to a recent work by Michael Alexander, for instance.

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Hedges, James. "Book Review: The Christian Tradition in English Literature: Poetry, Plays, and Shorter Prose." Christianity & Literature 57, no. 4 (September 2008): 606–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/014833310805700411.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Christian poetry, Nigerian (English)"

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Esser, Carolin Maud. "Naming the divine : designations for the Christian God in old English poetry." Thesis, University of York, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.434102.

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Herbison, David Ivan Currie. "The legacy of Christian epic : a study of Old English biblical and hagiographical poetry." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.394463.

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Turner, Kandy M. (Kandy Morrow). "A Study of "The Rhyming Poem": Text, Interpretation, and Christian Context." Thesis, North Texas State University, 1986. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc331700/.

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The purpose of the research presented here is to discover the central concept of "The Rhyming Poem," an Old English Christian work known only from a 10th-century manuscript, and to establish the poem's natural place in the body of Old English poetry. Existing critical literature shows little agreement about the poem's origin, vocabulary, plot, or first-person narrator, and no single translation has satisfactorily captured a sense of the poem's unity or of the purposeful vision behind it. The examination of text and context here shows that the Old English poet has created a unified vision in which religious teachings are artistically related through imagery and form. He worked in response to a particular set of conditions in early Church history, employing both pagan and Christian details to convey a message of the superiority of Christianity to idol-worship and, as well, of the validity of the Augustinian position on Original Sin over that of the heretical Pelagians.

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Leduc, Natalie. "Dissensus and Poetry: The Poet as Activist in Experimental English-Canadian Poetry." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/38773.

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Many of us believe that poetry, specifically activist and experimental poetry, is capable of intervening in our society, as though the right words will call people to action, give the voiceless a voice, and reorder the systems that perpetuate oppression, even if there are few examples of such instances. Nevertheless, my project looks at these very moments, when poetry alters the fabric of our real, to explore the ways these poetical interventions are, in effect, instances of what I have come to call “dissensual” poetry. Using Jacques Rancière’s concept of dissensus and the distribution of the sensible, my project investigates the ways in which dissensual poetry ruptures the distribution of the sensible—“our definite configurations of what is given as our real, as the object of our perceptions and the field of our interventions”—to look at the ways poetry actually does politics (Dissensus 156). I look at three different types of dissensual poetry: concrete poetry, sound poetry, and instapoetry. I argue that these poetic practices prompt a reordering of our society, of what is countable and unaccountable, and of how bodies, capacities, and systems operate. They allow for those whom Rancière calls the anonymous, and whom we might call the oppressed or marginalized, to become known. I argue that bpNichol’s, Judith Copithorne’s, and Steve McCaffery’s concrete poems; the Four Horsemen’s, Penn Kemp’s, and Christian Bök’s sound poems; and rupi kaur’s instapoems are examples of dissensual poetry.

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Richardson, Rebecca M. "A silent savior the inapproachability of Christ in the Dream of the rood /." Diss., Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri-Columbia, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10355/6679.

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Thesis (M.A.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2008.
Title from Graduate School website. The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file. Title from title screen of research.pdf file (viewed on September 22, 2008) Includes bibliographical references.

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Fletcher, Elizabeth Read David. ""Noble virtues" and "rich chaines" patronage in the poetry of Amilia Lanyer /." Diss., Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10355/6590.

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The entire thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file; a non-technical public abstract appears in the public.pdf file. Title from PDF of title page (University of Missouri--Columbia, viewed on November 13, 2009). Thesis advisor: Dr. David Read. Includes bibliographical references.

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McMullen, Mary Katherine. "Wrestling power George Herbert's struggle for spiritual union /." To access this resource online via ProQuest Dissertations and Theses @ UTEP, 2008. http://0-proquest.umi.com.lib.utep.edu/login?COPT=REJTPTU0YmImSU5UPTAmVkVSPTI=&clientId=2515.

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Woeber, Catherine. "A study of Christ and his saints as representatives of the values of Christian heroism in Old English poetry." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/21143.

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Bibliography: pages 71-72.
This dissertation investigates the concept of Christian heroism as it appears in a number of Old English poems, through a study of the figure of the miles Christi. These poems present a specific Christian heroism which, though couched in terms culled from Germanic heroism, nevertheless exists in its own right and is quite different from it. Christ and his saints are seen as heroes in themselves (Christian servants obedient to the will of God) rather than as heroic warriors as they are usually regarded (Germanic heroes fighting for a Christian cause). They are leaders and heroes in the sense of servants, and not only like kings and warriors of the Germanic code. A study of some poems from the Cynewulf canon shows that the poets understood Christian heroism to mean more than brave battling for the cause of good; in essence, it is complete submission to the will of God.

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Chatfield, Thomas Edward Francis. "Beyond realism and postmordernism : towards a post-Christian morality in the works of Philip Larkin, Kingsley Amis and Martin Amis." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2007. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:1db4198a-56e4-417d-b5e5-eb6586a6d7d6.

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This thesis evaluates and re-evaluates the relationship between the works of Philip Larkin, Kingsley Amis and Martin Amis through a detailed examination of their published works, and attempts to locate this relationship in the context of the central moral uncertainties of post-1945 British fiction. Most previous critical studies of these authors have tended to discuss the relationship between Kingsley Amis and Martin Amis in terms of an opposition between the father's realism and the son's postmodernism, and have debated Philip Larkin's influence upon Martin Amis only tangentially. Against this trend, this thesis argues that these three authors share a commitment to literature as a public, moral act, and, in particular, that their works share the intention of articulating a number of closely related secular 'human values' which map out a potential post-Christian morality in British society. The thesis also examines a common tension within their oeuvres inimical to such hopes - the fear that the possibilities of rational self-scrutiny and of becoming 'less deceived' have been discredited by the history of the twentieth century, and that this history instead evidences the dominance of irrational and self-destructive tendencies in the human. These fears, it is further claimed, are implicated in the works of all three authors in a tendency towards the construction of Edenic myths, deterministic simplifications, and despairing devaluations of the value of human life. Overall, this thesis makes the case for the significance of the common concerns of Martin Amis, Kingsley Amis and Philip Larkin's works in the context of contemporary literary studies: their efforts to create in art an unpretentiously 'public space' for the address of burning moral and existential issues, and their unresolved struggles with the question of what it might mean to live a good life in a society which no longer possesses religion as a common moral language.

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Wallace, Amy. "Waste Land or Promised Land: T.S. Eliot's The Idea of a Christian Society." TopSCHOLAR®, 1987. https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/2945.

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In T. S. Eliot's The Idea of a Christian Society, the poet questions the nature of our society's foundations; he believes that Western culture is moving dangerously closer to the liberal and secular and that this shift could be disastrous. Instead, Eliot suggests that we return to what is at the very roots of Western tradition: Christianity. To facilitate this change in direction, Eliot stresses the importance of an educational system which takes a Christian perspective. Also important in his thinking is a Community of Christians, who would act as leaders, and the Christian community (encompassing most of the population), which would restore unity to what has become a depersonalized existence. The philosophical validity of Christianity is integral to Eliot's scheme, and is explained well by author C. S. Lewis. Historian Christopher Dawson outlines the intertwining of religion and culture and the debt Western civilization owes the Christian faith. Eliot's poem The Waste Land is a picture of a society whose barrenness is ironic in light of the promise of life which surrounds it. Both the individuals and their society are blind to their own spiritual deaths. Also echoing Eliot's ideas concerning a Christian society, The Family Reunion and The Cocktail Party are plays of rejuvenation, in which a sacrificial death--whether literal or figurative--brings new life, both to the individual characters and their broken relationships. As allegories of the family of man, Eliot uses the families in these plays to illustrate the change that could turn a waste land into a promised land.

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Books on the topic "Christian poetry, Nigerian (English)"

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Fragments of truth: Poems. Ibadan, Nigeria: Kraftgriots, 1997.

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Human encounter: The verses of life. [Nigeria: s.n.], 2000.

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Five hundred Nigerian poets. Makurdi, Benue State, Nigeria: Aboki Publishers, 2005.

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Okosun, Freeman E. Dear Big Daddy: Letters and poems. Ibadan, Nigeria: Freeman Productions, 2000.

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Anthony, Isaac Ebika. Togetherness: Poetry for the young world. Ibadan: Ebiks Theatre Studio, 1997.

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Ezenwa-Ohaeto. I wan bi president: Poems in formal and pidgin English. [Nigeria?]: Delta, 1988.

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Songs for the thrush: Poems of diamond celebration for Niyi Osundare. Ibadan: Creative Books in collaboration with Ebiks Theatre Studio, 2007.

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Ezeudu, Ngozi M. First step rhymes for children. Enugu: Snaap Press Ltd., 1997.

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Okoro, Fidelis U., and E. J. Otagburuagu. Apples of gold: A pageant of modern Nigerian poetry. Enugu, Nigeria: Rainbow Publishers, 2002.

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Uwadinachi, Uche. Scar in the heart of pain: Poetry. Lagos, Nigeria: Virgilis Communications, 2009.

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Book chapters on the topic "Christian poetry, Nigerian (English)"

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"Theories of Poetry." In Classical and Christian Ideas in English Renaissance Poetry, 159–68. Routledge, 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203359952-18.

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"THEORIES OF POETRY." In Classical and Christian Ideas in English Renaissance Poetry, 212. Routledge, 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203359952-33.

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Wogan-Browne, Jocelyn. "The Hero in Christian Reception: Ælfric and Heroic Poetry." In Old English Literature, 215–35. Yale University Press, 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.12987/yale/9780300091397.003.0010.

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"Introduction: Renaissance Poetry and Modern Readers." In Classical and Christian Ideas in English Renaissance Poetry, 11–18. Routledge, 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203359952-7.

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"Vernacular poetic narrative in a Christian world." In Interactions of Thought and Language in Old English Poetry, 229–72. Cambridge University Press, 1995. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511597527.008.

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"Platonism and Neoplatonism." In Classical and Christian Ideas in English Renaissance Poetry, 45–54. Routledge, 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203359952-10.

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"Stoicism." In Classical and Christian Ideas in English Renaissance Poetry, 55–64. Routledge, 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203359952-11.

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"Views of History." In Classical and Christian Ideas in English Renaissance Poetry, 65–78. Routledge, 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203359952-12.

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"Cosmology." In Classical and Christian Ideas in English Renaissance Poetry, 79–98. Routledge, 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203359952-13.

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"Reformation and Counter-Reformation." In Classical and Christian Ideas in English Renaissance Poetry, 99–116. Routledge, 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203359952-14.

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Conference papers on the topic "Christian poetry, Nigerian (English)"

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Yatsenko, Maria. "qCaedmon's Hymnq in the Context of the Old English Christian Poetry (with special reference to the Song of the Three Youths)." In 45th International Philological Conference (IPC 2016). Paris, France: Atlantis Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.2991/ipc-16.2017.32.

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