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UNINA9910460360803321 |
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African literature and the future / / edited by Gbemisola Adeoti |
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Dakar : , : CODESRIA, Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa, , [2015] |
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©2015 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (114 p.) |
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Africa and the challenges of the twenty-first century |
Codesria book series |
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African literature |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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"This book is a product of the CODESRIA 13th General Assembly, 2011"--Page opposite title page. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; About the Contributors; Introduction. Present Tension in Future Tenses: Re-writing Africa into the Twenty-first Century; 1. Orality, Modernity and African Development: Myth as Dialogue of Civilisations; Introduction; Myth-Orality Nexus and the 'Other' Modernity; Myth, Modernity and the Development Question in Africa; Africa, Myth and the Dialogue of Civilisations Narrative; Re-Reading Myth as Text; Conclusion; References; 2. Requiem for Absolutism: Soyinka and the Re-visioning of Governance in Twenty-first Century Africa; Introduction |
Soyinka and the Absolute State The Beatification of Area Boy; King Baabu; Concluding Remarks; Notes; References; 3. A Critical Discourse Evaluation of Decolonisation and Democratisation: Issues in Africa as Exemplified in Soyinka's Non-fictional Texts; Introduction; Theory and Methods of Post-colonialism; The Non-fictional Writings of Soyinka; Lexical Indexicalisation of Political Actors; Conclusion; References; 4. Power, Artistic Agency and Poetic Discourse: Poetry as Cultural Critique in Africa; Introduction; Literary Trajectory; Nation, Power and Dissidence |
Exile and Dispersal: Post-Nation Anxiety Conclusion; Notes; References; 5. African Literature and the Anxiety of Being in the |
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Twenty-first Century; Introduction; Conceptualising African Literature; African Literature in the Twenty-first Century; Towards the Future; Conclusion; References; 6. A Critical Analysis of Prophetic Myths in the Selected Fiction of Ben Okri; Introduction; Journey as Archetypal Motif; In Search of the Future: Mythical Paradigms as Prophecy in In Arcadia; Unorthodox Archetypes as Predictive Myth; Unorthodox Archetypal Statements; Unorthodox Archetypal Sights; Conclusion |
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UNINA9910781509203321 |
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Autore |
Hutto Daniel D |
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The Presence of Mind [[electronic resource]] |
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Amsterdam/Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1999 |
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1-283-17436-7 |
9786613174369 |
90-272-8345-1 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (266 p.) |
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Advances in Consciousness Research |
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Act (Philosophy) |
Connectionalism |
Intentionalism |
Intentionality (Philosophy) |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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THE PRESENCE OF MIND; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction; CHAPTER ONE. Nothing in Mind; CHAPTER TWO. A Lack of Content; CHAPTER THREE. Black Dots and Red Herrings; CHAPTER FOUR. Seeing without Believing; CHAPTER FIVE. Interpreting Minds; CHAPTER SIX. Davidson's Identity Crisis; CHAPTER SEVEN. The Poisoned Chalice; Notes; References; Index |
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Will our everyday account of ourselves be vindicated by a new science? Or,will our self-understanding remain untouched by such developments? This book argues that beliefs and desires have a |
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legitimate place in theexplanation of action. Eliminativist arguments mistakenly focus on the vehicles of content not content itself. This book asks whether a naturalistic theory of content is possible. It is argued that a modest biosemantic theory of intentional, but nonconceptual, content is the naturalist's best bet. A theory of this kind complements connectionism and recent work on embodied and em |
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