While some scholars in the past believed that art should be a vehicle for moral control, some writers and critics in recent times appear to be saying that literary works should only entertain. This shift is reflected in the publication of literary works with controversial moral contents and a seeming lack of moral critique of them. This study, therefore, makes a case for a moral criticism in African fictional studies through an insightful moral critique of Chimamanda Adichie’s Americanah. The critical offerings of scholars such as T.S Eliot and especially Plato were referred to and the tenets of the moral concept namely: restraint, discipline and order were extracted from them, with emphasis placed on restraint. Through a moral critique of ...
In a patriarchal society, women are faced with all sorts of dehumanisation ranging from deprivation,...
M.A. University of the Witwatersrand, Faculty of Humanities, 2012That works of fiction are morally d...
Literature and moral behavior are intertwined. This is because literature is one of the disciplines ...
Text in EnglishThe study unravels moral perversion in selected post-independence detective Shona nov...
The post-colonial African novelist is committed beyond his/her art to a statement of value. Thus he ...
Authors do not write in vacuum. In every age, they write to reflect the circumstances prevailing in ...
The issue of morality has not only engaged the attention of the clergy, psychologists and other soci...
Since literature is a creative work that mirrors society, Alachi in The Dilemma of Oko, observes asp...
My dissertation examines the historical basis and theoretical validity of African literature. It tur...
This study shows the central position held by Ayi Kwei Aramh’s The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born i...
In 1978, the novelist John Gardner published a rather slender treatise called On Moral Fiction in wh...
A consideration of the moral positions in Helen Darville/Demidenko's The Hand that Signed the Paper ...
University of Technology, Sydney. Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences.NO FULL TEXT AVAILABLE. ...
This paper examines a variety of perspectives on the role of literature in moral education. These pr...
Before I go into the subject matter of my paper let me explain that my observations on the portrayal...
In a patriarchal society, women are faced with all sorts of dehumanisation ranging from deprivation,...
M.A. University of the Witwatersrand, Faculty of Humanities, 2012That works of fiction are morally d...
Literature and moral behavior are intertwined. This is because literature is one of the disciplines ...
Text in EnglishThe study unravels moral perversion in selected post-independence detective Shona nov...
The post-colonial African novelist is committed beyond his/her art to a statement of value. Thus he ...
Authors do not write in vacuum. In every age, they write to reflect the circumstances prevailing in ...
The issue of morality has not only engaged the attention of the clergy, psychologists and other soci...
Since literature is a creative work that mirrors society, Alachi in The Dilemma of Oko, observes asp...
My dissertation examines the historical basis and theoretical validity of African literature. It tur...
This study shows the central position held by Ayi Kwei Aramh’s The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born i...
In 1978, the novelist John Gardner published a rather slender treatise called On Moral Fiction in wh...
A consideration of the moral positions in Helen Darville/Demidenko's The Hand that Signed the Paper ...
University of Technology, Sydney. Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences.NO FULL TEXT AVAILABLE. ...
This paper examines a variety of perspectives on the role of literature in moral education. These pr...
Before I go into the subject matter of my paper let me explain that my observations on the portrayal...
In a patriarchal society, women are faced with all sorts of dehumanisation ranging from deprivation,...
M.A. University of the Witwatersrand, Faculty of Humanities, 2012That works of fiction are morally d...
Literature and moral behavior are intertwined. This is because literature is one of the disciplines ...