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UNINA9910811276103321 |
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African rhythms : new approaches to literature / / Smith and Ce, editors |
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Oxford, [England] : , : African Library of Critical Writing, , 2014 |
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1 online resource (172 p.) |
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African literature - History and criticism |
African literature (English) |
African literature |
Europe In literature |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Introduction; Chapter 1 - Oratorical Strategies in African Literature; Chapter 2 - Ral Rhythms of Achebe's Fiction; Chapter 3 - Releaming the Song that Truly Speaks; Chapter 4 - Comapring the Child Hero; Chapter 5 - Children in a Discourse; Chapter 6 - Hearts and Ballads; Chapter 7 - Njange Wan; Chapter 8 - Riddles and Bash; Notes and Bibliography; Back cover |
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With new integrative and indigenous approaches to literary affairs the focus of this volume is on the influence of tradition in African writing. Using the work of Chinua Achebe two scholars from outside Africa offer insight on oratorical devices in modern African fiction, two chapters follow which, by fusing traditional elements in transitional societies, illustrate the cultural awareness that touch on the exalted role of the artist in their communities. The post colonial rhetoric also continues with echoes of political commitment on modern poetry - town issues in the discourse of Africaís lit |
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UNINA9910962544803321 |
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Ulam Adam Bruno <1922-> |
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The Bolsheviks : the intellectual and political history of the triumph of communism in Russia : with a new preface / / Adam B. Ulam |
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Cambridge, MA, : Harvard University Press, c1998 |
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[1st Harvard University Press pbk. ed.] |
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1 online resource (xiii, 598 pages) : illustrations |
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Communism - Russia - History |
Communism - Soviet Union - History |
Soviet Union History Revolution, 1917-1921 |
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Originally published: New York : Macmillan Publishing, c1965. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE, 1998: LENIN AMONG THE BOLSHEVIKS -- I THE FAMILY -- II THE REVOLUTIONARY TRADITION -- III APPRENTICESHIP -- IV THE LEADER -- V REVOLUTION AND REACTION -- VI THE YEARS OF WAITING: 1908-1917 -- VII 1917 -- VIII VICTORY -- IX THE WORLDS OF COMMUNISM -- X THE LAST STRUGGLES -- INDEX |
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The rise of the Bolsheviks is an epic Russian story that now has a definitive end. The major historian of the subject, Adam Ulam, has enlarged his classic work with a new Preface that puts the revolutionary moment, and especially Lenin, in perspective for our modern age. |
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