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Title: | Tiv oral verse as prototypical poetry |
Author: | Jenkwe, Toryima E. |
Year: | 1982 |
Periodical: | Nigeria Magazine |
Issue: | 143 |
Pages: | 21-27 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Nigeria |
Subjects: | Tiv oral poetry |
Abstract: | This paper seeks to establish the following assertions: 1. That Tiv oral verse is as poetic in conception as any other poetic genre; 2. That Tiv poetry embodies (in principle), all such literary qualities and elements that render a piece of poetic art undoubtedly poetic; 3. The paper attempts to pin down those distinctive embodiments of Tiv verse which are either absent or unobtrusive in other forms of poetry - oral or written. Ref. |