Meet YUNUS ALADE SALMAN, an Academic Staff of Lagos State University.
Textual Criticism Arabic Narratology
Lecturer I
Foreign Languages
At the Foreign Languages department office
Appointment on Visitation important
Topic: My Research Interest Area Is Contemporary Literary Criticism Specifically, Arabic Narratology
Description: I am inclined to Arabic literary criticism, particularly, the type of criticism which deals with a work of literature as something which stands free from extrinsic relations to the author/poet, or to the audience, or to the social or literary milieu. This objective criticism describes the literary product as a self-sufficient and autonomous object, or else as a world-in-itself, which is to be contemplated as its own end, and to be analyzed and judged solely by intrinsic criteria such as complexity, coherence, equilibrium, integrity, and the interrelations of its component elements. A major brand of this criticism is structuralist criticism which - inspired by F. De Saussure s structuralist linguistic insights and the works of the Russian formalists - concentrates on the immanent properties of the work itself, its in-built components that work in concert as a structural whole, a self-contained system which effectively functions as meaning-spinner independently of its author. An important branch of structuralist criticism is narratology, which, working in collaboration with poetics, semiotics, and genre theory, analyzes both content and form of narratives . This contemporary current of narrative study enjoys a catholic cultivation in the West and in the Arab world including North Africa. However, Arabic critics in other parts of Africa, especially Nigeria, seem not to be awake to this development in the academic world. As an Arabic critic, I have not only developed a penchant for Arabic narratology but have also decided as it obtains overseas - to make a career in it.
| # | Certificate | School | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Ph.D (Arabic Narratology as an area in Contemporary Arabic Literary Criticism) | Foreign Languages, Lagos State University | 2018 |
A semiotic narratological portrayal of the daringness of a hero: a study of the narrative grammar in the story the second trip of Akaraogun in the daemons forest
External critical approaches have contributed significantly to the analysis, interpretation and evaluation of narratives including the Yoruba novel Ogboju Ode ninu Igbo Irunmole by D.O. Fagunwa. However, these approaches have ignored some other critical aspects of narratives, which internal approaches take cognizance of. Although the contributions of external critical approaches to Ogboju Ode are appreciated, this paper sets to go beyond the external considerations to reveal some narrative techniques employed by the author in shaping the content form of the story Akaraogun in the daemons forest the second time, particularly the narrative programme and narrative semiotic spheres employed in creating the protagonist in Akaraogun, who is destined to face numerous challenges on his way to achieving many heroic feats. With the objectives of exploring these narrative techniques, this paper sets out using the observation method of data collection and descriptive method of analysis, which adopted the narrative syntax of the Greimassian approach to narrative texts and found out that Akaraogun courageously went through activities lined up ahead of him following the logical stages of manipulation/competence, actual performance and self-submission to judgment. Subsequently, this study contributes to research of Ogboju Ode ninu Igbo Irunmole by revealing the narrative content form of Akaraogun s tale in his quest for wealth acquisition through the dangerous task of hunting in the daemons forest passing through the logical steps in a hero s trajectory.
YUNUS SALMAN is a Lecturer I at the Department of Foreign Languages
YUNUS has a Ph.D in Arabic Narratology as an area in Contemporary Arabic Literary Criticism from Foreign Languages, Lagos State University
