Depiction of Johannes Mokgwadi's divinatory poems

dc.contributor.authorMojalefa, M.J. (Mawatle Jeremiah), 1948-
dc.contributor.authorMojalefa, Jerry
dc.contributor.emailjerry.mojalefa@up.ac.zaen_US
dc.contributor.otherUniversity of Pretoria. Dept. of African Languages
dc.coverage.temporalAD
dc.date.accessioned2010-08-16T11:56:13Z
dc.date.available2010-08-16T11:56:13Z
dc.date.issued2010-08-16T11:56:13Z
dc.descriptionText of inaugural address by Prof. M.J. Mojalefa, Head of Department of African Languages on 3 August 2010en_US
dc.description.abstractAlthough praise poetry by black South Africans has received some critical attention, there are still some researchers who find it difficult to understand the structure of this poetic form. They assume that every poem has to have a structure similar to that of poetry written in one of the languages of the West, such as English, and find the absence of such structure in praise poetry worrying. With regard to, for example, modern Sepedi poetry they further say that it is no longer oral, but rather written, and so should have more in common with Western poetry. However, this inaugural address argued the opposite view, namely that traditional oral and modern written Sepedi poetry are similar in many respects to each other and to Western modes (especially where the Western mode in question is that of oral Anglo-Saxon poetry), differing only in content. Comparable to Anglo-Saxon alliterative verse, African oral poetry is largely divorced from meter, where meter is defined in terms of the recurrence of stressed and unstressed syllables. African languages in general, and poetry in the African languages in particular, are not characterized by stress, but rather by aspects such as tone, length, patterns of repetition, and unusual grammar.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/14684
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesInaugural addresses (University of Pretoria)en_US
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dc.rightsUniversity of Pretoriaen_US
dc.subjectPraise poems
dc.subject.ddc891
dc.subject.lcshLaudatory poetry, African
dc.subject.lcshMokgwadi, Johannes -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
dc.titleDepiction of Johannes Mokgwadi's divinatory poemsen_US
dc.typeTexten_US

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