DSpace Collection:http://repository.fuoye.edu.ng:80/handle/123456789/11642024-03-25T05:18:48Z2024-03-25T05:18:48ZFighting War With Words: A Lexico-Semantic Analysis of Dasylva's Songs of OdamolugbeInya, Blessing Titilayohttp://repository.fuoye.edu.ng:80/handle/123456789/9372016-02-02T13:30:42Z2015-05-01T00:00:00ZTitle: Fighting War With Words: A Lexico-Semantic Analysis of Dasylva's Songs of Odamolugbe
Authors: Inya, Blessing Titilayo
Abstract: In the wake of post-colonialism and the resultant neo-colonialism
in some African countries, some wars are not fought with guns
but words; one of these is war against corruption: corrupt leaders
and corrupt practices. Some of these warriors are journalists,
writers, poets, etc. one of whom is Ademola Dasylva in Songs of Odamulogbe. Songs of Odamulogbe is a collection of poems
that is preoccupied with combating corrupt leaders and corrupt
practices, and inciting other compatriots to arise to the challenges
facing the poet’s country, Nigeria. There have been both literary
and linguistic-based studies on Ademola Dasylva’s Songs of
Odamolugbe; but worthy of note is Dasylva’s use of language,
particularly, lexico-semantic features embedded in the text.
However, no attention has been paid to this aspect of language
use in the text. Therefore, drawing on the resources of Systemic
Functional Grammar, this study attempts a lexico-semantic
analysis of select poems in Dasylva’s Songs of Odamolugbe. The
poems are selected based on their political themes. The lexicosemantic
features are identified and discussed. The study reveals
that language use in the text is not arbitrary; rather, it is for
specific purposes like correcting, criticizing, inciting, eulogising
in nostalgia a once good country etc.
Description: the chapter is a study on lexico-semantics of a Nigerian poetry.2015-05-01T00:00:00ZHumanities — To Be or Not To Be, That Is the QuestionAlbrecht Classenhttp://repository.fuoye.edu.ng:80/handle/123456789/1442016-02-02T13:31:35Z2011-09-16T00:00:00ZTitle: Humanities — To Be or Not To Be, That Is the Question
Authors: Albrecht Classen
Abstract: Let us carry some proverbial owls to Athens or coals to Newcastle, that is, revisit issues that have
been discussed and examined by so many different voices in the past and the present. However, those
issues by themselves are so powerful and important, so urgent and difficult that we must never tire of
examining them always anew because they pertain centrally to our own human existence and prove to
be the defining factors for our survival as a species. Why do we need the humanities as an academic
discipline in the university, or in our educational system at large? What role do the humanities play
both inside and outside the academy? Most universities in this world somehow acknowledge the
importance of languages, literatures, music, art history, philosophy, religion, and education. But when
it comes to basic financial issues, the humanities tend to be the first victims of budget cuts, if we
disregard specifically liberal arts colleges that focus on the humanities above all or exclusively.
Description: Let us carry some proverbial owls to Athens or coals to Newcastle, that is, revisit issues that have
been discussed and examined by so many different voices in the past and the present. However, those
issues by themselves are so powerful and important, so urgent and difficult that we must never tire of
examining them always anew because they pertain centrally to our own human existence and prove to
be the defining factors for our survival as a species. Why do we need the humanities as an academic
discipline in the university, or in our educational system at large? What role do the humanities play
both inside and outside the academy? Most universities in this world somehow acknowledge the
importance of languages, literatures, music, art history, philosophy, religion, and education. But when
it comes to basic financial issues, the humanities tend to be the first victims of budget cuts, if we
disregard specifically liberal arts colleges that focus on the humanities above all or exclusively.2011-09-16T00:00:00ZTranslation as the Catalyst of Cultural TransferAlbrecht Classenhttp://repository.fuoye.edu.ng:80/handle/123456789/1372016-02-02T13:33:12Z2012-03-30T00:00:00ZTitle: Translation as the Catalyst of Cultural Transfer
Authors: Albrecht Classen
Abstract: This essay reflects on the many different strategies involved in translation,
which is both a linguistic and a cultural-historical strategy. Examples from the Middle
Ages and the Modern Age are adduced to illustrate the huge impact which translations
have had on peoples and societies throughout time
Description: This essay reflects on the many different strategies involved in translation,
which is both a linguistic and a cultural-historical strategy. Examples from the Middle
Ages and the Modern Age are adduced to illustrate the huge impact which translations
have had on peoples and societies throughout time2012-03-30T00:00:00ZHuman Actions Illustrated in Zen’s Ox-Herding PicturesYong Zhihttp://repository.fuoye.edu.ng:80/handle/123456789/1362016-02-02T13:35:22Z2012-10-17T00:00:00ZTitle: Human Actions Illustrated in Zen’s Ox-Herding Pictures
Authors: Yong Zhi
Abstract: The enlightenment from Zen’s perspective is the experiences of action that
reveal a horizon of new consciousness. This event of enlightenment is the process of action
rather than the outcome of action. Therefore, actions are not just the means to
enlightenment but the very core of it. The actions of enlightenment from Zen’s perspective
cannot be adequately described and explained in logical terms. Unlike most other Buddhist
schools, Zen does not engage in extensive philosophical discourses; its classical literatures
are mostly artistic in nature, consisting of collections of koans, poetry, and paintings, etc.
The ten ox-herding pictures of Zen Buddhism are recognized as the classical illustration of
Zen’s spiritual journey, as it vividly depicts the practice of Zen in a poetic and
metaphorical way. They present a visual parable of the path to enlightenment in a narrative
sequence of a boy’s searching, seeing, wrestling, riding, and transcending of the ox.
Description: The enlightenment from Zen’s perspective is the experiences of action that
reveal a horizon of new consciousness. This event of enlightenment is the process of action
rather than the outcome of action. Therefore, actions are not just the means to
enlightenment but the very core of it. The actions of enlightenment from Zen’s perspective
cannot be adequately described and explained in logical terms. Unlike most other Buddhist
schools, Zen does not engage in extensive philosophical discourses; its classical literatures
are mostly artistic in nature, consisting of collections of koans, poetry, and paintings, etc.
The ten ox-herding pictures of Zen Buddhism are recognized as the classical illustration of
Zen’s spiritual journey, as it vividly depicts the practice of Zen in a poetic and
metaphorical way. They present a visual parable of the path to enlightenment in a narrative
sequence of a boy’s searching, seeing, wrestling, riding, and transcending of the ox.2012-10-17T00:00:00ZInteraction between Media and EthicsLeila keyanpourhttp://repository.fuoye.edu.ng:80/handle/123456789/1342016-02-02T13:36:36Z2012-11-04T00:00:00ZTitle: Interaction between Media and Ethics
Authors: Leila keyanpour
Abstract: Among the key issues that in recent decades the researchers have focused on is the
relationship between ethics and media and interaction between them. Nowadays,
interaction between these two realities, two texts, two institutions, and both cultural and
technological elements has occupied the mind of the researchers. The confluence of these
two different perspectives of sociology, sociology of knowledge, communication, ethics,
and culture has been discussed and contemplated. Through the interaction of the ethics and
media, two high frequency hybrid concept "media ethics" and "ethical media” have
emerged. These new concepts will influence the future.
Description: Among the key issues that in recent decades the researchers have focused on is the
relationship between ethics and media and interaction between them. Nowadays,
interaction between these two realities, two texts, two institutions, and both cultural and
technological elements has occupied the mind of the researchers. The confluence of these
two different perspectives of sociology, sociology of knowledge, communication, ethics,
and culture has been discussed and contemplated. Through the interaction of the ethics and
media, two high frequency hybrid concept "media ethics" and "ethical media” have
emerged. These new concepts will influence the future.2012-11-04T00:00:00ZMaking Nothing Happen: Yeats, Heidegger, Pessoa, and the Emergence of Post-RomanticismJames Corbyhttp://repository.fuoye.edu.ng:80/handle/123456789/1312016-02-02T13:37:18Z2012-08-19T00:00:00ZTitle: Making Nothing Happen: Yeats, Heidegger, Pessoa, and the Emergence of Post-Romanticism
Authors: James Corby
Abstract: Through close readings of the work of two major poets of the twentieth
century—W.B. Yeats and Fernando Pessoa—this paper identifies and attempts to make
sense of an important shift in European modernism away from a broadly Romantic
aesthetic toward what might be called “post-Romanticism.” Taking its cue from W.H.
Auden’s “In Memory of W.B. Yeats,” where having stated that “poetry makes nothing
happen” he asserts that it survives as “a way of happening,” and drawing on the philosophy
of Heidegger and Jean-Luc Nancy, this paper argues that this shift from Romanticism to
post-Romanticism hinges on a deep metaphysical reconceptualization of poetry understood
as poiesis. In light of this reassessment of the aesthetics and philosophical affinities of
poetic modernism, it is argued that post-Romanticism should be understood as offering a
modest, salutary, phenomenological re-acquaintance with our involvement with the
everyday world, in sharp contrast to the transcendental ambitions of the Romantic aesthetic
that preceded it.2012-08-19T00:00:00Z