TY  - BOOK
AU  - Nwoga,Donatus Ibe
TI  - Critical perspectives on Christopher Okigbo
SN  - 9780894102592 (pbk.) :
AV  - PR9387.9.O378 Z6 1984
PY  - 1984///
CY  - Washington, D.C.
PB  - Three Continents Press
KW  - Okigbo, Christopher,
KW  - Poets, Nigerian
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Interviews
KW  - Poetry
KW  - Authorship
KW  - Nigeria
KW  - Intellectual life
N1  - "Christopher Okigbo, 1932-1967: a bio-bibliography" / by Joseph C. Anafulu: p. [349]-361; "Addenda to Okigbo bibliography" / Bernth Lindfors: p. [362]-364; In Memoriam -- Don't let him die/ Chinua Achebe -- Christopher Okigbo: the man and the poet/ Donatus Ibe Nwoga -- Reviews and studies of individual works -- Heavensgate -- Review of Heavensgate in Three Mbari poets/ Ulli Beier -- Review of Heavensgate, 1962/ Dennis Williams -- Okigbo's Heavensgate: a study of art as ritual/ S.O. Anozie -- Extract from Okigbo: a branch of giant Fennel/ N.J. Udoeyop -- Okigbo's portrait of the artist as a sunbird: a reading of Heavensgate, 1962/ D.S. Izevbaye -- Aesthetics and the mythic imagination: notes on Christopher Okigbo's Heavensgate and Uche Okeke's drawings/ Obiora Udechukwu -- Limits -- Review of limits, 1964/ O.R. Dathorne --- From review "Two African poets"/ Muriel Ruykeyser -- A dramatic approach to Okigbo's limits/ Joel A. Adedeji -- Okigbo's limits: an approach to meaning/ Donatus Ibe Nwoga -- Scilences -- Poetry and empirical logic: a correspondence theory of truth in Okigbo's Laments/ S.O. Anozie -- The emergence of the poet of destiny: a study of Okigbo's Lament of silent sisters/ Donatus Ibe Nwoga -- Distances -- Distances: fantasy or dialectic/ S.O. Anozie -- Okigbo's distances: a retreat from Christ to Idoto/ R.N. Egudu -- Path of thunder -- Extract from Okigbo: a branch of giant Fennel/ N. J. Udoeyup -- Prodigals come home/ Chinweizu -- Iron thunder and elephants: a study of Okigbo's "Path of thunder"/ Ime Ikddeh -- Labyrinths -- Okigbo's Labyrunths/ Theophilus Vincent -- the stages of style and thematic preoccupation in Okigbo's poety of Labyrinths/ Philemon Victor Gomwalk -- The ritual and the plot: the critic and Okigbo's Labyrinths/ Annemarie Heywood -- Labyrinths or the initation quest of Christopher Okigbo/ Roland Bouyssou -- General essays and interviews -- Okigbo interview with Louis Nkosi -- Okigbo interview with Dennis Duerden -- Okigbo interview with Robert Serumaga -- Extract from Okigbo interview with Marjorie Whitelaw, 1965 -- Christopher Okigbo/ Paul Theroux -- Ritual and ceremony in Okigbo's poetry/ O.R. Dathorne -- Vision and fulfillment/ Geral Moore -- the poetry of Christopher Okigbo: its evolution and significance/ Omolara Leslie -- from reality to the dream: the poetry of Christopher Okigbo/ Dan S. Izevbaye -- Meaning in Okigbo's poetry/ Anthony Nazombe -- Ezra pounf in African poetry: Christopher Okigbo/ Romanus Egudu
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