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1. Literary Theory and CriticismVolume 21, Issue 2 (September 2021)pp. 20–38PDF of Archetype and the Image of the Woman in Amu-Nnadi’s A Field of Echoes

   Archetype and the Image of the Woman in Amu-Nnadi’s A Field of Echoes

   Chinasa Abonyi, Chidi Eze and Chinonye Okemuo

   Archetype is a universal mode of being which is often recognized as recurrent among humans in different times and culture. It was applied in psychology as a recurrent pattern among … that identifies and classifies social similarities into common universal patterns. From existing literature, archetype has been studies as the form and the recurrency of the literary motif. Yet, not much

2. Literary Theory and CriticismVolume 21, Issue 2 (September 2021)PDF of Archetype and the Image of the Woman in Amu-Nnadi’s A Field of Echoes

   Archetype and the Image of the Woman in Amu-Nnadi’s A Field of Echoes

   Chinasa Abonyi, Chidi Eze and Chinonye Okemuo

   Archetype is a universal mode of being which is often recognized as recurrent among humans in different times and culture. It was applied in psychology as a recurrent pattern among … that identifies and classifies social similarities into common universal patterns. From existing literature, archetype has been studies as the form and the recurrency of the literary motif. Yet, not much

3. Literary Theory and CriticismVolume 21, Issue 1 (March 2021)pp. 102–110PDF of Messianic and Anti-Messianic Figurations in Mohamed Mbougar Sarr’s The Brotherhood

   Messianic and Anti-Messianic Figurations in Mohamed Mbougar Sarr’s The Brotherhood

   Chikaodili O. Obinyeluaku

   This paper examines the archetypal construction of a messianic-cum-anti-messianic image in Mohamed Mboughar Sarr’s The Brotherhood. It is a character study of Abdel Karim Konate … good shepherd in search of lost sheep. Using Northrop Frye’s theory of archetype, this paper explores the similarities between Abdel and the messiah, as well as his anti-messianic

4. Literary Theory and CriticismVolume 23, Issue 1 (March 2023)pp. 104–122PDF of Mythopoeia and Esotericism in Nigerian Literature: A Study of Power and Ritual in The Famished Road, Zahrah the Windseeker, and And the Dead Sing… Justice

   Mythopoeia and Esotericism in Nigerian Literature: A Study of Power and Ritual in The Famished Road, Zahrah the Windseeker, and And the Dead Sing… Justice

   Benjamin Nwabuisi Abia, Anya Ude Egwu and Mary J. N. Okolie

   Dead Sing… Justice. Using a qualitative, comparative method that combines structuralist narratology with archetypal myth-criticism, it examines how the three writers use mythopoeia, the deliberate making of myth … enabling gift and as an invasive, possessing force, and that ritual works as an archetype that keeps cosmic and socio-political order in place. Nigerian mythopoeic fiction, it argues, turns

5. Literary Theory and CriticismVolume 22, Issue 1 (March 2022)pp. 33–47PDF of Beyond the Critical Consensus: Rethinking Masculinity in Amma Darko’s Faceless

   Beyond the Critical Consensus: Rethinking Masculinity in Amma Darko’s Faceless

   Chigbu, Andrew Chigbu and Onyeka J Uzuegbu

   A large share of scholarly discussion on Amma Darko's Faceless holds