M.B. Omigbule

Bio: M.B. Omigbule is an academic researcher from Obafemi Awolowo University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Literary criticism. The author has an hindex of 1, co-authored 1 publications receiving 1 citations.

Proverbs in Wole Soyinka's Construction of Paradox in The Lion and The Jewel and Death and The King's Horseman

Abstract: Summary Paradox, which is one means through which conflict is resolved in Soyinka's works, also accounts for the difficulty in interpreting his works. Proverbs play a significant role as a creative tool in the playwright's construction of paradox for the representation of the reality of his society and envisioning a better one. The article focuses on how proverbs have been strategically infused into the plays to lend a paradoxical edge to characterisation and the ironic resolution of conflict in the plays. A critical study of the proverbial idioms employed in the plays (these idioms are critically related to some salient Yoruba proverbs outside the texts) show that the charge of obscurity that is often levelled against Soyinka is attributable to his deployment of the tool of paradox to achieve aesthetic and philosophical significance. The study is informed by an agential approach to literary criticism which makes possible the establishment of connections between authorial intention and the agency of the text.

Dramatizing Aborted Ritual: Postmodernist Imaginings in Wole Soyinka’s Death and the King’s Horseman

Abstract: Death and King’s Horseman showcases a condition of cultural rupture. Wole Soyinka’s manner of realizing this is through theoretical adventure that reveals his own very postmodernist imaginings, per...