The poetics of Empire : a model of time and a problem of language in medieval and in postcolonial writing

A gendered trope of 'auctoritas' links Dante's 'Commedia' with the postcolonial novels, Chinua Achebe's 'Things Fall Apart' and Leslie Marmon Silko's 'Ceremony'. The recurrence of a circular motif inscribing mystery - present at the levels of st...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Murray, Teresa Grace
Published: University of Edinburgh 2003
Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.735366