ENGLISH 240: Studies in World Literature

 

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Things Fall Apart
 

Selected Articles, References and Criticisms

Begam, Richard, and Harold Bloom. "Achebe's Sense of an Ending: History and Tragedy in "Things Fall Apart."." Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations: Achebe's Things Fall Apart-MCI (2003): 5-18.

Cobham, Rhonda, and Harold Bloom. "Problems of Gender and History in the Teaching of "Things Fall Apart."." Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations: Achebe's Things Fall Apart-MCI (2003): 19-30.

Counihan, Clare. "Reading the Figure of Woman in African Literature: Psychoanalysis, Difference, and Desire." Research in African Literatures 38.2 (Summer 2007): 161-180.

Egar, Emmanuel Edame, and Harold Bloom. "Rhetorical Implications of the Theme in "Things Fall Apart."." Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations: Achebe's Things Fall Apart-MCI (2003): 31-40.

Esonwanne, Uzoma. "The "Crisis of the Soul": Psychoanalysis and African Literature." Research in African Literatures 38.2 (Summer 2007): 140-142.

Gikandi, Simon. "Chinua Achebe and the Invention of African Culture." Research in African Literatures 32.3 (Fall 2001): 3.

Hoegberg, David. "Principle and Practice: The Logic of Cultural Violence in Achebe's Things Fall Apart." College Literature 26.1 (Winter 1999): 69.

Janmohamed, Abdul, and Harold Bloom. "Sophisticated Primitivism: Syncretism of Oral and Literate Modes in Achebe's "Things Fall Apart."." Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations: Achebe's Things Fall Apart-MCI (2003): 41-56.

Kortenaar, Neil Ten, and Harold Bloom. "How the Centre Is Made to Hold in "Things Fall Apart."." Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations: Achebe's Things Fall Apart-MCI (2003): 71-87.

Palmer, Eustace, and Harold Bloom. "Character and Society in Achebe's "Things Fall Apart."." Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations: Achebe's Things Fall Apart-MCI (2003): 145-156.

MacKenzie, Clayton G., and Harold Bloom. "The Metamorphosis of Piety in Chinua Achebe's "Things Fall Apart."." Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations: Achebe's Things Fall Apart-MCI (2003): 89-101.

McLaren, Joseph, and Harold Bloom. "Missionaries and Converts: Religion and Colonial Intrusion in "Things Fall Apart."." Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations: Achebe's Things Fall Apart-MCI (2003): 103-112.

Nnoromele, Patrick C. "The Plight of A Hero in Achebe's Things Fall Apart." College Literature 27.2 (Spring 2000): 146.

Osei-Nyame, Kwadwo. "Chinua Achebe writing culture: representations of gender and tradition in `Things Fall Apart'." Research in African Literatures 30.2 (Summer 1999): 148.

Quayson, Ato. "Realism, criticism, and the disguises of both: A reading of Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart..." Research in African Literatures 25.4 (Winter 1994): 117.

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