English Language, Literature & Culture

Volume 8, Issue 2, June 2023

  • Exploring the Self Through Habit and Memory

    Badra Menouer

    Issue: Volume 8, Issue 2, June 2023
    Pages: 22-27
    Received: 9 March 2023
    Accepted: 15 April 2023
    Published: 10 May 2023
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    Abstract: Throughout his career, Beckett’s characters are, in a perpetual exploration of their inner world, for they begin to realize that knowledge of the self is just as elusive as knowledge of the outside world. This loss of self, which marks all of Beckett's characters deeply, leaves them in a kind of no man's-land between an unknowable external world an... Show More
  • Masculinity and Power in Wole Soyinka’s Death and The King’s Horseman

    Onuoha Beatrice Nwawuloke, Chijioke Macdonald Uwah

    Issue: Volume 8, Issue 2, June 2023
    Pages: 28-34
    Received: 7 February 2023
    Accepted: 4 March 2023
    Published: 20 June 2023
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    Abstract: Wole Soyinka is considered one of the foremost Nigerian literary writers of Yoruba descent. His corpus traverses all the genres of literature and covers a wide range of themes and subject matters. One prominent concern of his work is the juxtaposition of Yoruba tradition and Western notions. This paper uses his play text, Death and the King’s Horse... Show More