scholarly journals Thematic Reinforcement in Poetry: An Analysis on the use of Biblical Allusion as Stylistic Device in Oloruntoba-Oju’s Losses

2020 ◽  
pp. 228-241
Author(s):  
LUCAS SABA
Keyword(s):  
Biblical Allusion ◽  
Biblical Allusions ◽  
Stylistic Device ◽  
Poetry Collection

This study explores the thematic issues raised in Taiwo Oloruntoba-Oju’s poetry collection Losses. A total of nine data were selected from the poems Another Parable, Apata, the Rock; The new Commandments; Down the Throat of Pieter Botha and, Tell Them Mandela which were purposively selected from the poetry collection. These selected data from the poetry collection were analysed using Stylistics as the model for analysis. Specifically, Biblical allusion, as a stylistic device, is used for analysis. The Biblical allusions are elicited from the selected data. The aim of this study is achieved by exploring how the selected Biblical allusions reinforce the various themes in Losses. This study has revealed through the analysis that the use of Biblical allusions by the poet is not just a show of the poet’s linguistic or stylistic dexterity but also as a potent tool to reinforce his message through the themes. The analysis has shown that the poet through Biblical allusion explores basically the themes of oppression, hardship, poverty and revolution. This study is unique in that apart from exploring the stylistic prowess of the poet through his use of Biblical allusions, it further explores how the allusions are important in the thematic construction of the poems. This study concludes that Oloruntoba-Oju is an ace stylistician who through stylistic devices is able to aptly communicate his message to readers. Keywords: Stylistics, Style, Allusion, Poetry and Taiwo Oloruntoba-Oju.

scholarly journals (Re) examining Autobiography as Social History: A Historico-Critical Reading of Nasir Ahmad El-Rufai’s the Accidental Public Servant

2020 ◽  
pp. 199-212
Author(s):  
ADEYEMI AMOS ADEGBOYEGA
Keyword(s):  
Social History ◽  
Critical Reading ◽  
Public Servant ◽  
Biblical Allusion ◽  
Biblical Allusions ◽  
Stylistic Device ◽  
Poetry Collection

This study explores the thematic issues raised in Taiwo Oloruntoba-Oju’s poetry collection Losses. A total of nine data were selected from the poems Another Parable, Apata, the Rock; The new Commandments; Down the Throat of Pieter Botha and, Tell Them Mandela which were purposively selected from the poetry collection. These selected data from the poetry collection were analysed using Stylistics as the model for analysis. Specifically, Biblical allusion, as a stylistic device, is used for analysis. The Biblical allusions are elicited from the selected data. The aim of this study is achieved by exploring how the selected Biblical allusions reinforce the various themes in Losses. This study has revealed through the analysis that the use of Biblical allusions by the poet is not just a show of the poet’s linguistic or stylistic dexterity but also as a potent tool to reinforce his message through the themes. The analysis has shown that the poet through Biblical allusion explores basically the themes of oppression, hardship, poverty and revolution. This study is unique in that apart from exploring the stylistic prowess of the poet through his use of Biblical allusions, it further explores how the allusions are important in the thematic construction of the poems. This study concludes that Oloruntoba-Oju is an ace stylistician who through stylistic devices is able to aptly communicate his message to readers. Keywords: stylistics, style, allusion, poetry, Taiwo Oloruntoba-Oju, Losses.

Identifying Inner-Biblical Allusion through Metaphor

2015 ◽  
Vol 65 (4) ◽  
pp. 542-557 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lesley DiFransico
Keyword(s):  
Hebrew Bible ◽  
Biblical Allusion ◽  
Biblical Allusions

Commentators have often noted the numerous prophetic allusions contained in Psalm 51. Identifying and evaluating the nature of such inner-biblical allusions, however, is not without difficulty. An additional feature that connects the psalm to the prophets is the concept of washing away sin (Ps 51:4, 9; Isa 1:16; 4:4; Jer 2:22; 4:14), a distinctive metaphor that is found explicitly only in these passages. This paper will evaluate the connection between Psalm 51 and these prophetic passages vis-à-vis a study of the washing metaphor and will utilize the distinctive metaphor as a criterion for identifying and exploring inner-biblical allusion. The analysis of a metaphor that is rare or unusual within the Hebrew Bible has the potential to inform the identification and exploration of inner-biblical connections and can aid in the discussion of dependency and directionality.

ESAU, TAMAR, AND JOSEPH: CRITERIA FOR IDENTIFYING INNER-BIBLICAL ALLUSIONS

2002 ◽  
Vol 52 (2) ◽  
pp. 219-252 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Noble
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
The Other ◽  
Biblical Allusion ◽  
Biblical Allusions ◽  
Succession Narrative ◽  
Cumulative Probabilities

AbstractAlthough the importance of inner-biblical allusion is now widely recognised, there is still some uncertainty about the criteria by which genuine allusions may be distinguished from, say, merely fortuitous resemblances. The present article tries to illuminate these issues through a study of Genesis xxxviii. Since there are numerous individual similarities between this chapter and the Succession Narrative, some scholars have claimed (by an argument of cumulative probabilities) that one story is intentionally alluding to the other. This method of identifying allusions, however, is here rejected - both because of difficulties in carrying it through consistently and non-arbitrarily, and also because it would lead to an implausible plurality of further supposed-allusions. Instead, a methodology based upon R. Alter's notion of a type-scene is proposed, by which allusion is discovered through identifying shared patterns of interconnected resemblances. Applying this methodology also to Genesis xxxviii, it is argued both that this text makes numerous allusions to the stories of Jacob and Joseph, and that recognising these allusions adds very considerably to our understanding of all three stories.

NOISY SOUNDS! It’s a Listening Affair: Jazz Aesthetic, Improvisation, and Womanism in M. NourbeSe Philip’s She Tries Her Tongue, Her Silence Softly Breaks

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 053-069
Author(s):  
Thao Ho
Keyword(s):  
Black Female ◽  
Black Writers ◽  
Diasporic Literature ◽  
Jazz Music ◽  
Black Resistance ◽  
Speak Up ◽  
Stylistic Device ◽  
Poetry Collection ◽  
The Way ◽  
Music Play

Black writers adapted jazz music to “say the unsayable” or employed the “jazz aesthetic,” which includes improvisation, citation, and variation as a stylistic device to distance their literature from European forms of narration. These elements can also be found in M. NourbeSe Philip’s poetry collection She Tries Her Tongue, Her Silence Softly Breaks (1988) which rigorously challenges the way language and words are perceived. Philip denounces the Western ideology of non-ambiguity, dichotomies, and narration altogether by engaging the reader as jazz musicians engage their audience. What role did music play in the Black resistance? What is the “jazz aesthetic” and how is it incorporated into Black diasporic literature? How does jazz music create community and how did Black female musicians speak up in a rather hypermasculine jazz universe? How does Philip incorporate the jazz aesthetic, improvisation, and womanist thoughts in her poems? And what is the intention of noise, dissonance, and (musical) violence?

scholarly journals Lucebert en de religie: Een oratorium

Literator ◽  
1994 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 67-78
Author(s):  
J. Van der Elst
Keyword(s):  
Musical Drama ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Religious System ◽  
Biblical Allusions ◽  
The Church ◽  
Special Relevance ◽  
Stylistic Device ◽  
Human Destiny

This article reviews the intertextual relations between the poetry of the Dutch poet Lucebert and the Bible. Although Lucebert is by no means a religious poet he freely uses Biblical citations and allusions in his poetry. This has special relevance for one of his newest volumes of poetry entitled Troost de hysterische robot - Gedichten en een oratorium (Console the hysterical robot - Poems and an oratorio). The last part of this title refers to an oratorio - which can be defined as a lyrical-musical drama which usually has a religious substance. The Biblical jargon that Lucebert uses does not only refer to texts but also refers to isolated words or phrases which belong to Biblical or religious jargon in general. In his reflections on human destiny and fate, the poet uses many anchoring texts from the Bible. One comes to the conclusion that Lucebert's poems do not fall within the framework of a religious system, but he does use religion and then especially Biblical allusions to testify to his dissatisfaction with established institutions which include the church. The main stylistic device he uses to reach his objective is antithesis, which is also a topic of discussion in this article.

scholarly journals The book of Jonah and the theme of exile

2020 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 128-140
Author(s):  
Marian Kelsey
Keyword(s):  
Biblical Narratives ◽  
Biblical Allusion ◽  
Biblical Allusions ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Babylonian Exile

This article examines the exilic theme of many inner-biblical allusions in the book of Jonah. Although there are few allusions to the Babylonian exile itself, allusions to the primeval and exodus narratives focus upon and draw out the exilic motifs in those texts. The allusions characterize the prophet Jonah, accentuating his wrongdoing and dissatisfaction while also indicating a more hopeful outcome for him than the ending of the book would otherwise suggest. Furthermore, the allusions illustrate the literary approach of the author in using biblical narratives to enrich his own story while simultaneously influencing the reader’s interpretation of the texts that he evokes. This insight into the author’s techniques is informative for exploring other instances of inner-biblical allusion in the book.

scholarly journals Biblical Allusions in Papuan Mythical Folktales and Their Effects on Material Culture Development for the Papuans

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Reimundus Raymond Fatubun
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Old Testament ◽  
Linguistic Diversity ◽  
Food Sources ◽  
The Bible ◽  
The People ◽  
Biblical Allusion ◽  
Biblical Allusions ◽  
The Many ◽  
Culture Development

Powerful texts may have great impacts on the many people who read them. This article examined the biblical allusions found in two Papuan myths and discussed their impacts as seen in the material culture. The books in the Bible that the myths allude to are the Old Testament: Isaiah, Exodus, Genesis, and Deuteronomy and the New Testaments: Luke, John, Mark, and Revelations. The sources suggested that the biblical information might have been heard sporadically by the Sawi/Auyu and the Tabi from earlier Europeans. The formal contacts which brought the Bible, though, came in the 1800s. This means that the impacts of the great biblical stories had not been there long enough to internalize in the people’s lives so as to trigger significant material culture - let alone the highest linguistic diversity. Furthermore, the geographical challenges made it even worse for the people to have to endure the hardship, and made it difficult to obtain healthy, nutritional, and sufficient food sources for the improvement of human resources which would have been necessary for creating significant material culture. Keywords: biblical allusion, Papuan mythology, material culture, Kwembo, Ataphapkon

Thomas More's “rule” of pleasure before, after, and inUtopia

Moreana ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 54 (Number 207) (1) ◽  
pp. 36-56
Author(s):  
Gerard Wegemer
Keyword(s):  
Human Nature ◽  
The Other ◽  
Biblical Allusions ◽  
De Officiis

After establishing a context of More's lifelong engagement with the “calculus” of pleasure, this essay shows how the section devoted to the Utopians' pleasure philosophy is structured around five formulations of a “rule” to calculate “true and honest [honesta]” pleasure in ways that playfully imitate and echo the “rule” Cicero formulates several times in De officiis to discern one's duty when there seems to be a conflict between honestas et utilitas. When followed, the Utopian pleasure calculus shows the necessary role of societas, officii, iustitia, caritas, and the other aspects of human nature, most importantly friendship, that Cicero stresses in his rule and that he argued Epicurus ignored. Much of the irony and humor of this section depends on seeing the predominance of Ciceronian vocabulary in Raphael's unusual defense [patrocinium] of pleasure, rather than a Ciceronian defense of duty rooted in honestas. Throughout, however, this essay also shows how More goes beyond Cicero by including Augustinian and biblical allusions to suggest ways that our final end is not as Epicurus or the Stoics or Cicero claim; the language and allusions of this section point to a level of good cheer and care for neighbors and for God in ways quite different from any classical thinker.

Ahiolohiya poetychnoyi zbirky Lazarya Baranovycha Żywoty świętych (1670)

2020 ◽  
pp. 249-258
Author(s):  
Olena Ruda
Keyword(s):  
Family Life ◽  
18Th Century ◽  
The Given ◽  
The Ideal ◽  
Poetry Collection

The purpose of the article is the analysis of hagiology in Lazar Baranovych’s poetry collection entitled Żywoty świętych (1670). This includes the fulfi lment of such tasks: 1) To enumerate the saints mentioned in the poetry collection; 2) To determine to which church/epoch/place of worship or order of sainthood they belong; 3) To determine how full the saints’ details of biography are refl ected in the poetry collection mentioned above; 4) To understand Lazar Baranovych’s view on the topic of diff erent kinds of sainthood clearly; 5) To measure the actuality of his views given the context of the 18th century Ukraine. The results of the research are shared in the given article, showing how exactly Lazar Baranovych defi ned for himself the concept of the sainthood at the fi rst place. They also tell us about his views on the call for monkhood and family life and help us to reconstruct the images of the ideal spiritual shepherd, female Christian etc.

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