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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 (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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Astuti, Anjar Dwi. "A PORTRAYAL OF NIGERIAN AFTER CIVIL WAR IN CHINUA ACHEBE’S CIVIL PEACE (1971)." Journal of Culture, Arts, Literature, and Linguistics (CaLLs) 3, no. 2 (2017): 97. http://dx.doi.org/10.30872/calls.v3i2.875.

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African literature has strong relation with colonialism, not only because they had ever been colonized but also because of civil war. Civil Peace (1971), a short story written by Chinua Achebe, tells about how Nigerian survive and have to struggle to live after Nigerian Civil War. It is about the effects of the war on the people, and the “civil peace” that followed. The Nigerian Civil War, also known as the Nigerian-Biafran War, 6 July 1967–15 January 1970, was a political conflict caused by the attempted annexation of the southeastern provinces of Nigeria as the self-proclaimed Republic of Biafra. The conflict was the result of economic, ethnic, cultural and religious tensions among the various peoples of Nigeria. Knowing the relation between the story and the Nigerian Civil War, it is assured that there is a history depicted in Civil Peace. In this article, the writer portrays the history and the phenomenon of colonization in Nigeria by using new historical and postcolonial criticism approaches.Keywords: history, colonization, civil war

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Ibagere, Elo, and Osakue Stevenson Omoera. "The Nigerian Film Plot." Matatu 48, no. 2 (2016): 435–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18757421-04802012.

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The Nigerian film industry, otherwise known as Nollywood, has been acknowledged to be the second-largest in the world in terms of volume of production. This fact presents an interesting vista worthy of investigation, especially with regard to the quality of the films produced. It is in respect of this premise that this article examines the plot of the Nigerian film—a feature capable of affecting the popularity of the film. The essay, having dwelt on what plot is, critically examines the Nigerian film plot and finds that Nollywood films mostly adopt an episodic structure, thereby making them unnecessarily long. Besides (and this is systemically related to episodic structure and to a natural tendency in Nigerian rhetoric), many of the films tend to be too wordy, too chatty, over-padded, thus often earning them scathing criticism. The challenges of scriptwriting in this regard are examined, culminating in recommendations for how to improve the quality of scripts through plot construction in this vibrant film culture.

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Onwuka, Edwin. "Portraits of the Nigerian Soldier in Isidore Okpewho’s The Last Duty and Festus Iyayi’s Heroes." SAGE Open 11, no. 3 (2021): 215824402110469. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/21582440211046956.

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An essential feature of Nigerian literatures is their capacity to exploit history and social experience to bring to light the human condition in society without compromising literary aesthetics. Thus, Nigerian novels often appear to be more educative than entertaining by their ability to illuminate social realities far more effectively than historical or sociological texts. This is evident in the representations of soldiers in Nigerian novels which are highly influenced by historical and social circumstances. This paper carries out a comparative and descriptive analysis of portrayals of Nigerian soldiers in Isidore Okpewho’s The Last Duty and Festus Iyayi’s Heroes from a new historical perspective. Most studies on the military in Nigerian novels often focus on their actions in war situations and their disruptive and undemocratic activities in politics. However, these studies frequently explore the military as a group with little attention to the texts as expositions on character types in the Nigerian military. This study therefore contributes to criticism on the nexus between literary representation, history, and society. It further highlights historical and social contexts of military explorations in Nigerian novels and their impacts on the perception of the Nigerian soldier in society. These are aimed at showing that depictions of the military in Nigerian novels go beyond their capacities for disruptions and destructions in society; they represent artistic probing of the nature and character of persons in the Nigerian military.

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Sulaiman, Raziyu Laul. "The Poetic Image and Its Realistic Manifestations in Contemporary Nigerian Arab Poetry "Divan Shawq Ali Talal as a Model" by the Poet Ahmed Al-Tijani Thani Saad." Dzil Majaz: Journal of Arabic Literature 1, no. 2 (2023): 159–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.58223/dzilmajaz.v1i2.77.

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The research will attempt to uncover the literary trends and their applications, especially in Nigeria, and the most influential literary research methodologies among them, by delving into the literary heritage they left for us to analyze and explain. We aim to identify its prominent features and define its distinct characteristics, as literature is a vast ocean and research and authorship within it encompass various aspects and directions, with diverse forms and colors, particularly if we venture beyond its narrow definition confined to "prose and poetry" and explore its broader cultural meaning, which has spread among ancient civilizations. This entails drawing from every art form, making most of what the Arabic library contains, including poetry, speeches, letters, philosophy, history, criticism, stories, and other sciences and arts, all of which are intrinsic to literature and fall under its domain. By doing so, we can gain a clear understanding of the stages that Nigerian literary research has undergone, as well as the movement of writing and literary authorship among Africans, particularly in Nigeria, both in the past and present. This reveals the significant role played by its speakers in the field of scientific research and literary studies throughout its extended journey. May God grant us success and guide us on the right path.

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Boluwaduro, Stephen Olabanji. "Negotiating Textuality and Aesthetic Tropes in Fújì Performance." Matatu 52, no. 2 (2022): 313–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18757421-05202003.

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Abstract Fújì music, a Yorùbá popular art, has over the time been criticised as a local musical idiom devoid of any sophisticated aesthetic and functional values, and meant only for the illiterates. This study investigates the multiplicity of aesthetic performances in this Yorùbá art through close examination of a range of Fújì musical song texts in a bid to articulate Yorùbá socio-cultural realities. Engaging an aspect of Ackerman’s concept of hybridity, this study analyses selected works of two Nigerian Fújì musical artistes, Sikiru Ayinde Balogun (a.k.a. Barrister) and Rasaki Kolawole Ilori (a.k.a. Kollington Ayinla) who are representatives of the first generation of Fújì musical artistes. I argue that Fújì music possesses utilitarian relevance to Nigerian audiences as it is engaged in various ways to generate multiple meanings in linguistic, literary and musicological senses through syncretic complexities of postcolonial socio-cultural dialectical practices in Nigeria. The study concludes that Fújì song performance inherently possesses and articulates an array of social values and aesthetics.

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Onwuka, Edwin, Emmanuel Uba, and Isaiah Fortress. "Versifying History and National Trauma in Tanure Ojaide’s The Endless Song." SAGE Open 9, no. 1 (2019): 215824401983743. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2158244019837435.

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The symbiotic relationship between literature and history is most visible in the writer’s deployment of his or her art to document experiences of the past and their impacts on the feelings and well-being of his or her people in the periods represented in the work(s). This article explores the historical content and significance of Tanure Ojaide’s The Endless Song from a new historical perspective. Most studies on Ojaide’s poetry often focus on his critique of bad leadership and his denunciation of exploitation and pillaging of Nigeria’s Niger Delta region with little attention paid to his poems as history in verse form. This article therefore contributes to criticism on the interface between literature and history. This study further highlights significant motifs in Nigeria’s history in the periods documented in The Endless Song and analyses the traumatic impacts of the events on the well-being of Nigeria and her people. These are aimed at showing that Ojaide’s The Endless Song is more than an outcry against the plundering of the Niger Delta region; it represents the spatiotemporal record of Nigeria’s turbulent history.

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Nnaemeka, Obioma. "Toward a feminist criticism of Nigerian literature." Feminist Issues 9, no. 1 (1989): 73–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf02685604.

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Kajeej, Omar Abdullah. "غَ رَ بَ طَ نَ ظَ و هَو زا رَ يَا نَاقدٌ نَقده لَقصيدة "َبحق رَب اَلورىَ" لَلشعر اَلحاج عَمر اَ لَ كَ بَ وَي أَنموذجا". Yandoto Academic Journal of Arabic Language and Literature 6, № 01 (2022): 27–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.36349/yajoall.2022.v06i01.003.

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This research in title “Garba Dantsoho Zaria, is Critic his scrutinising the poetry of Alh. Umar Al-Kabawai named "for the sake of mankind’s creator" as model ". The paper intended to highlight the contributions of Garba Dantsoho Zaria, toward the development of Arabic literature and criticism in Nigerian Arabic Literature. The research contained the biography of the author (Critic) Garba Dantsoho Zaria, his struggle for seeking the Arabic language and Islamic studies, his compositions toward the development of Arabic language literature and criticism in the fill of Nigerian Arabic Education, at the end the paper explains the preferment and structure of his book, called the presentation, analysis, and the criticism of the Alh. Umar Al-kabawai poets, finally the conclusion, summary, and recommendations were been given.

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McH., B., and Dominick LaCapra. "History and Criticism." Poetics Today 7, no. 3 (1986): 594. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1772526.

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Chris Ajibade, Adetuyi,. "Thematic Preoccupation of Nigerian Literature: A Critical Approach." English Linguistics Research 6, no. 3 (2017): 22. http://dx.doi.org/10.5430/elr.v6n3p22.

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Nigerian literature takes "matter" from the realities of Nigerian living conditions and value systems in the past and present. In the Nigerian society the writer, be it a novelist, dramatist or poet is a sensitive "questioner" and reformer; as all literature in a way is criticism of the human condition obtainable in the society it mirrors. The writer often cannot help exposing the bad and the ugly in man and society. Thus much of Nigerian literature is a deploration of the harsh and inhuman condition in which the majority of Nigerians live in i.e. poverty, misery, political oppression, economic exploitation, excesses of the affluent, liquidation of humane Nigerian traditional values, and all forms of injustices which seem to be the lot of a large majority in most Nigerian societies.In drama, novel, poetry or short - story, the writer's dialogue with his physical and human environment comes out as a mirror in which his people and society can see what they look like. Every image painted by a skillful artist is expressed or put into writing / print, becomes public property and leaves itself open for evaluation by those who read and understand the language and expression. There is therefore a need to identify the thematic preoccupation of Nigeria literature which is the focus of this paper with a view to identifying their peculiarities with textual references.

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Hornsby, Joseph, and David Aers. "Medieval Literature: Criticism, Ideology and History." South Atlantic Review 53, no. 1 (1988): 107. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3200408.

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Samson, Anne, and David Aers. "Medieval Literature: Criticism, Ideology and History." Modern Language Review 84, no. 4 (1989): 917. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3731173.

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Mullins, G. A. "Atrocity, Literature, Criticism." American Literary History 23, no. 1 (2010): 217–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/alh/ajq084.

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Martirosian, G. E. "AFRICANFUTURISM IN CONTEMPORARY NIGERIAN LITERATURE: THE CASE OF ‘PET’ BY AKWAEKE EMEZI." Bulletin of Udmurt University. Series History and Philology 32, no. 5 (2022): 1104–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.35634/2412-9534-2022-32-5-1104-1109.

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This article is devoted to the literary analysis of Akwaeke Emezi’s ‘Pet’, the novel, as an Africanfuturist artifact of the contemporary literature of the Nigerian diaspora in the United States. Africanfuturism is considered in both political and methodogical opposition to Afrofuturism, and is understood as a critical artistic method that, within the framework of Black science fiction, recounts an alternative version of the future of African people. The scientific article describes the features of the implementation of science fiction subgenres in the literature of Nigerians, residents of Nigeria, and representatives of the Nigerian diaspora, and also substantiates their differences from traditional (European) fantasy narratives. By the case of ‘Pet’ by A. Emezi, which at many artistic levels goes against both the Nigerian and pan-European canons of science fiction, the markers of Africanfuturist criticism of the culture, the correlation between the magical (mythogical) and futurological as the main difference between Africanfuturism and Afrofuturism are shown.

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Gearhart, Suzanne, and Dominick LaCapra. "History as Criticism: The Dialogue of History and Literature." Diacritics 17, no. 3 (1987): 56. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/464835.

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Strohm, Paul. "Medieval Literature: Criticism, Ideology and History. David Aers." Speculum 63, no. 2 (1988): 352–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2853226.

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Byerman, Keith. "Remembering History in Contemporary Black Literature and Criticism." American Literary History 3, no. 4 (1991): 809–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/alh/3.4.809.

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Dean, Paul. "Current Literature 2000: Literary Theory, History and Criticism." English Studies 83, no. 1 (2002): 9–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1076/enst.83.1.9.9567.

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Dean, Paul. "Current Literature 2001. Literary Theory, History and Criticism." English Studies 84, no. 2 (2003): 145–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1076/enst.84.2.145.14904.

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Dean, Paul. "Current Literature 2002. Literary Theory, History and Criticism." English Studies 84, no. 6 (2003): 558–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1076/enst.84.6.558.28782.

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Dean, Paul. "CURRENT LITERATURE 2003: LITERARY THEORY, HISTORY AND CRITICISM." English Studies 85, no. 6 (2004): 532–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00138380412331339260.

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Dancer, Thom. "Literary Criticism: A Concise Political History." Comparative Literature 71, no. 1 (2019): 117–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00104124-7217100.

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Zhang, Jie, and Wenxin Lin. "Historical facts of literature and personality in research – about the compilation of the book “History of Russian and Soviet literary criticism of the XX century”." Neophilology, no. 24 (2020): 755–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.20310/2587-6953-2020-6-24-755-764.

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Russian literature is an important part of world literature and is studied all over the world. In comparison with the history of literature, the history of literary criticism is more an interaction between the objectivity of literary facts and the personality of the compiler of this history. This work presents a description of the personality in research using the example of the book “History of Russian and Soviet literary criticism of the XX century” written by Chinese scientist Zhang Jie, the main task of which is to provide a theoretical basis and methods of criticism for analyzing the mechanism of reproducing the meanings of literary texts and images. We analyze the functions of literary criticism and explain the interaction and harmony of objective historical facts of literature and the compiler’s personality in the study. We define three currents of Russian and Soviet literary criticism of the 20th century: religious and cultural criticism, real literary criticism, and aesthetic criticism. We prove that history reflects not only the objectivity of factors, but also its compiler’s personality, which is an indicator. We explain the need to coordinate the objectivity of historical facts and the subjectivity of the compiler, and we present a value-based reflection of a scientific linguistic personality in the Chinese ethnoculture.

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Russo, Adelaide M., Dominique Viart, Roger Célestin, and Eliane DalMolin. "Literature and Criticism: Taking Stock." Contemporary French and Francophone Studies 20, no. 3 (2016): 351–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17409292.2016.1177352.

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Knibbe, Kim. "Nigerian Missionaries in Europe: History Repeating Itself or a Meeting of Modernities?" Journal of Religion in Europe 4, no. 3 (2011): 471–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/187489211x592085.

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AbstractThis article discusses the question how to construct a vantage point from which to study the phenomenon of Nigerian missionaries in Europe. When theoretical frameworks extrapolating from the history of religion in western Europe are used to understand a religious network that originated in Nigeria, Nigerian missionaries and missionaries from the Global South inevitably appear as a case of history repeating itself and even as 'premodern.' In contrast, Africanist literature provides an understanding of the ways in which oppositions between tradition and modernity are constructed and used in Nigerian Pentecostalism that is very different. This literature however, does not provide ways to engage with the European contexts in which Nigerian missionaries operate. Therefore the article suggests that the encounter between Nigerian missionaries and European contexts might be most fruitfully conceptualized as a 'meeting of modernities' (inspired by Eisenstadt's notion of 'multiple modernities'), each implying a 'denial of coevalness.'

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Dean, Paul. "Current Literature 1998: II. Literary Theory, History and Criticism." English Studies 81, no. 1 (2000): 56–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1076/0013-838x(200001)81:1;1-#;ft056.

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Dean, Paul. "Current Literature 1999: II. Literary Theory, History and Criticism." English Studies 81, no. 6 (2000): 548–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1076/enst.81.6.548.9182.

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Dean, Paul. "Current literature 2004 II. Literary theory, history and criticism." English Studies 86, no. 6 (2005): 545–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00138380500319950.

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Fargnoli, Joseph R., and Rene Wellek. "A History of Modern Criticism: 1750-1950. Vol. 5: English Criticism, 1900-1950." Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association 20, no. 1 (1987): 118. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1315004.

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Bucco, Martin, and Rene Wellek. "A History of Modern Criticism 1750-1950. Volume 6: American Criticism 1900-1950." American Literature 59, no. 1 (1987): 126. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2926495.

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Stern, Kimberly J. "A History of Feminist Literary Criticism." Women's Writing 16, no. 1 (2009): 173–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09699080902854503.

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Gunn, Giles, and Rene Wellek. "A History of Modern Criticism, 1750-1950." Poetics Today 8, no. 1 (1987): 205. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1773017.

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Brown, Calvin S., and Rene Wellek. "A History of Modern Criticism, 1750-1950." Comparative Literature 40, no. 1 (1988): 67. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1770644.

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Cain, William E. "Notes toward a History of Anti-Criticism." New Literary History 20, no. 1 (1988): 33. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/469319.

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Frost, Charlotte. "Digital Critics: The Early History of Online Art Criticism." Leonardo 52, no. 1 (2019): 37–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/leon_a_01379.

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Art critic Jerry Saltz is regarded as a pioneer of online art criticism by the mainstream press, yet the Internet has been used as a platform for art discussion for over 30 years. There have been studies of independent print-based arts publishing, online art production and electronic literature, but there have been no histories of online art criticism. In this article, the author provides an account of the first wave of online art criticism (1980–1995) to document this history and prepare the way for thorough evaluations of the changing form of art criticism after the Internet.

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Végső, Roland. "Resisting World Literature." Journal of World Literature 7, no. 4 (2022): 512–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/24056480-00704003.

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Abstract This article examines the historical tensions between the theoretical definitions of “world literature” and the institutionalization of world literature programs in the context of early Cold War literary criticism in the United States. It uses the works of René Wellek, Austin Warren, and Lionel Trilling to establish that this type of criticism resisted the rise of world literature based on the theoretical claim that world literature does not exist as a legitimate object of literary analysis. In its conclusion, the article turns to Gayatri Spivak’s critique of world literature to demonstrate that the resistance to world literature is part of the ongoing history of Weltliteratur well beyond the Cold War.

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Lehman, Robert S. "Criticism and Judgment." ELH 87, no. 4 (2020): 1105–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/elh.2020.0039.

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Peradotto, John, and George A. Kennedy. "The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism, Volume I: Classical Criticism." American Journal of Philology 113, no. 3 (1992): 473. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/295476.

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Boer, Roland. "A Titanic Phenomenon: Marxism, History and Biblical Society." Historical Materialism 16, no. 4 (2008): 141–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156920608x357756.

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Marxist contributions to biblical criticism are far more sustained and complex than many would expect. This critical survey of the state of play, with a look back at the main currents that have led to that state, deals with Marxist contributions to the reconstructions of biblical societies and the interpretation of the literature produced by those societies. It begins by outlining the major Marxist positions within current biblical criticism and then moves on to consider two possible sources of further insight from outside biblical criticism: Western-Marxist studies of the ancient world (Karl Kautsky, Perry Anderson and G.E.M. de Ste. Croix) and the long and neglected tradition of Soviet-era Russian work on the ancient Near East. I conclude by pointing to a number of lingering problems: the unreliability of the literature for historical purposes; the lack of fit between juridical distinctions in the literature and class distinctions in the ancient world; the question as to whether the state can be a class; and the viability of imposing on the ancient world Marxist categories developed in very different situations.

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William Abiodun Duyile and John Uzoma Nwachukwu. "‘Japa’ Phenomenon And Nigeria Students In The Mix Of A Proxy War In Ukraine." Matondang Journal 2, no. 1 (2022): 1–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.33258/matondang.v2i1.803.

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This study examined the Nigerian mentality, educational system, in context to migration as against the challenges faced by Nigerians in the Russo- Ukraine war in 2022. It also explains the ‘japa’ phenomenon and how foreign education is supporting migration. The research also traced the history of tertiary education in Nigeria. A retrospect and review of the facts was made, in order that scholars would have an insight on perceptions as well as the strategies anddiplomatic challenges Nigeria passed through in the course of this war. The study relied on documentary data. The documentary data were sourced from newspapers, journal papers, internet sources and correspondence. The documentary was subjected to internal and external criticism for authentication, and then to textual and contextual analyses. Nigerian students found themselves in a war that was never their making but the emigration from their nation to Ukraine made them a part of this piece of History.

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Carlson, Eric W. "The Transcendentalist Poe: A Brief History of Criticism." Poe Studies 32, no. 1-2 (1999): 47–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1754-6095.1999.tb00111.x.

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Akinpelu, Oluwafunmilayo. "From Third-Generation Nigerian Literature in English to the Twenty-First Century." Research in African Literatures 54, no. 3 (2024): 147–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.2979/ral.00021.

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ABSTRACT: The late Harry Garuba and Biodun Jeyifo are considered to be the most outspoken critics against the generational model of writing the history of Nigerian literature. These academics raised objections against the national-generational framework on the premises that it is ambiguous, unstable, temporally reductive, and uses a rudimentary age-grading system to explain away a complex literary history in which different writers are constantly churning out works of different genres and stylistic compositions at different times regardless of the generation to which they have been constricted. Drawing from their highly antagonistic outlooks, this article further criticizes the disadvantageous character of the generational model adopted in Nigerian literary history by critically examining how twenty-first-century literary developments disrupt historiographically constructed generations in Nigerian literature. The article also subtly proposes that a fourth generation be instituted or the generational model be altogether scrapped.

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PYKETT, L. "Literary History and Criticism: General Works." Year's Work in English Studies 63, no. 1 (1985): 1–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ywes/63.1.1.

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DAVISON, P. "Literary History and Criticism: General Works." Year's Work in English Studies 64, no. 1 (1986): 1–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ywes/64.1.1.

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Adekunle, Idowu James. "The Poet as a Cultural Ambassador and Social Critic." Randwick International of Social Science Journal 4, no. 2 (2023): 18–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.47175/rissj.v4i2.663.

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Poetry is oral literature with aesthetic skills. It is a performative form of a cultural infusion of traditional and contemporary realities of the human world. Poetry in its true nature is political, economic, and sociological. Poetry is largely human. Previous studies have examined poetry as entertainment and poetic orature to neglect cultural significance and social criticism. Therefore, this study examines as poetry an embodiment of cultural identities and an element of social criticism. The anthology of Femi Abodunrin, entitled “It Would Take Time: Conversation with Living Ancestors” would be examined. This is in a bid to see how a poet serves as a cultural ambassador of his/her country and, at the same time, a social critic. Femi Abodunrin is a Nigerian-born poet. Schechner's Performance, Freudian, and Jungian psychoanalytic theories were used to analyze the selected collections. The selected poems are subjected to performance and literary analyses.

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Halmi, Nicholas. "The Nostalgic Imagination: History in English Criticism." Common Knowledge 27, no. 2 (2021): 318–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/0961754x-8906285.

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Adeaga, Tomi. "The Decline of the Nigerian Educational System Its Impact on the Younger Generation." Matatu 40, no. 1 (2012): 301–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18757421-040001021.

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In the 1960s through to the 1980s, the Nigerian educational system as a whole was a role model for a number of other African countries, and its institutions of higher learning attracted many gifted scholars from all over the continent and beyond. It is on this strong foundation that contemporary Nigerian literature, for example, was also built. Significantly, this literature grew out of the group of vibrant Nigerian and African scholars including Chinua Achebe, Christopher Okigbo, Wole Soyinka, and J.P. Clark, as well as the unforgettable German scholar, Ulli Beier. They brought Nigerian literature to heights which to date remains unsurpassed. However, those proponents of Nigerian literature who, years ago, prognosticated a rapid growth of Nigerian literature would be disappointed to find out that its progress has been slower than anticipated. This can be attributed to the drastic decline in Nigerian educational standards. It is in this vein that this essay seeks to explore the impediments in the continued growth of the Nigerian educational system in relation to literary studies. The focus is on the present younger generation and the role good education plays in their lives. The primary and the secondary school systems are analysed; the latter is exemplified by poor performance in the Joint Matriculation Examinations and the low number of highly qualified teachers. Also, the role of the universities and other institutions of higher learning are analysed and future prospects discussed. This is linked to those Nigerian scholars whose dedication to their professions is reflected in their efforts to revitalize the Nigerian educational system and to keep it from breaking down completely.

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Roof, Judith. "Hypothalamic Criticism: Gay Male Studies and Male Feminist Criticism." American Literary History 4, no. 2 (1992): 355–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/alh/4.2.355.

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Owomoyela, Oyekan, and Craig W. McLuckie. "Nigerian Civil War Literature: Seeking an "Imagined Community"." International Journal of African Historical Studies 25, no. 1 (1992): 192. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/220183.

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