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A Study on Semiotics as a Literary Theory. Compiled by: Names Matric number 1) MAKINDE Kehinde O.         137437 2) FEMI-ADEOSUN Oluwadamilola Y. 143657 3) YAWE Doofan B.         180425 4) ODEBAMIKE Yemisi G.         137442 5) OYEKAN Bashirat Titilayo 6) AMIOLA Oyeleye European studies, Postgraduate school, University of Ibadan. 15th September, 2014. HISTORICAL BACKGROUND The history behind semiotics testifies that it meant at first, a medical diagnosis. A study that identified the ways that various symptoms indicate the diseases that underlie them. It was not applied to the study of relation between human symbols and reality. Aristotle (384-322 BC) took it to investigate the relation between forms and reality more closely. He pointed out that words for instance, do indeed refer to real things, which helps to classify the world into real categories e.g. plants versus animals versus objects and so on. St. Augustin
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TAKE A SHOT AT IT

FINISHING STRONG     H aving had my bath on a windy Monday morning, the burden of the word of God strongly laid on my heart kept me thinking on these words: for what course must I run?, in the stillness of heart alone with God; He took me through the volumes of his words, showing me a man who could confidently say; “I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith” so, I further thought; how was this made possible? As I fell into a deep sleep. Awakened by the honking of a car on the street, I rushed to freshen up and later took my lunch as I left the house for a youth fellowship; on getting there they were discussing the same burden of the word that kept burning within me. As this young chaps explained what it meant to them rather what they understood the phrase to be, the spirit of the lord came unto me   again and said: “Grace for what course must you run?, how can you finish this course?’, then the mystery of the word came to me(my course is my
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SEMIOTIC ELEMENTS IN SELECTED WORKS OF SOME AFRICAN WRITERS

                                  A Study on Semiotics as a Literary Theory. Compiled by: Names Matric number 1) MAKINDE Kehinde O.         137437 2) FEMI-ADEOSUN Oluwadamilola Y. 143657 3) YAWE Doofan B.         180425 4) ODEBAMIKE Yemisi G.         137442 5) OYEKAN Bashirat Titilayo 6) AMIOLA Oyeleye European studies, Postgraduate school, University of Ibadan. 15th September, 2014. HISTORICAL BACKGROUND The history behind semiotics testifies that it meant at first, a medical diagnosis. A study that identified the ways that various symptoms indicate the diseases that underlie them. It was not applied to the study of relation between human symbols and reality. Aristotle (384-322 BC) took it to investigate the relation between forms and reality more closely. He pointed out that words for instance, do indeed refer to real things, which helps to classify the world into real categories e.g. plants versus animals vers
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A MARXIST APPROACH TO OUSEMANE SEMBENE'S God's Bits of Woods

A MARXIST CRITICISM OF GOD’S BITS OF WOOD WRITTEN BY SEMBENE OUSMANE AND PUBLISHED IN (1960). Yemisi Grace ODEBAMIKE 137442 Department of European Studies, Postgraduate school, University of Ibadan, Nigeria. Date: 8th September, 2014. Marxist criticism is a type of criticism in which literary works are viewed as the product of work and whose critics emphasizes the role of class and ideology as they reflect, propagate and even challenge the prevailing social order. Marxist critics view text as a material product to be understood in broadly historical terms (in the realm of production and consumption-economics). The Marxist revolution speaks of the continuing conflict between the classes that will lead to upheaval and revolution by oppressed peoples and form the ground work for a new order of society are economics where capitalism is abolished. The revolution will be led by the working class under the guidance of intellects, when the elite and
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