YOU 308 — Yorùbá Literary History, Theory and Criticism
YOU department course · Nigerian universities
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What you'll be able to do (official learning outcomes)
explain the meaning, history and advent of literary theories in Yorùbá literature
list Yorùbá literary critics who started literary criticism of Yorùbá novels
differentiate between traditional form of literary criticism and modern form
identify and classify kinds of theories relevant to Yorùbá creative works
explain the classical and western theories and their usefulness in indigenous literature, and
apply some of the theories to selected texts- poetry, drama and novel
Course contents
Literary history among the Africans before the advent of colonisation in relation to oral poetry. Traditional drama and prose forms. Types of literary criticism in the pre-colonial era – preperformance criticism, communal editing, post-performance criticism, etc. Modern criticism and the use of theories.
Source: the Nigerian Universities Commission (NUC) Core Curriculum and Minimum Academic Standards (CCMAS). StudyOps loads this syllabus automatically when you study YOU 308.