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UNISA996386579003316 |
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Winstanley William <1628?-1698.> |
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An episcopal almanack for the year of the worlds creation, 5624, mankinds redemption, 1675 [[electronic resource] ] : being the third after bissextile or leap-year : illustrated with the lives of some of the seventy two disciples, and continued with an account of divers of the primitive bishops : with several other things necessary for an annual ephemeris, calculated properly for the famous university and town of Cambridge, where the pole is elevated 52 degrees and 17 minutes above the horizon |
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London, : Printed by J. Macock for the Company of Stationers, ted, 1675 |
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Almanacs, English |
Ephemerides |
Astrology |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Reproduction of original in Bodleian Library. |
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UNINA9910797929303321 |
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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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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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Materiale a stampa |
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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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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 Twenty-first Century; Introduction; Conceptualising African Literature; |
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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 |
ReferencesBack cover |
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