Restoring the Kingdom of the Mind: Trans-realism and Transgressing Aesthetic Boundaries in Ben Okri’s Fiction
This paper reads Ben Okri’s The Famished Road in the light of his lesser-known novel Astonishing the Gods, which illuminates his aesthetic aspirations, particularly his desire to alter the way we perceive and interact with the world. Okri transgresses aesthetic boundaries through what he terms “tran...
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| izdano v: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/ces, |
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| Glavni avtor: | Syrkin, Elizabeth |
| Format: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Jezik: | Anglais |
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Commonwealth Essays and Studies
2021
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| Online dostop: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
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