Images Of Social Vices In Contemporary Nigerian Poetry: A Study Of Denja Abdullahi’s Mairogo And Jide Balogun’s The Desert In The River

As a result of social vices in our immediate environments this research work aims at bringing out how contemporary writers have reacted to the bad happening in the society, especially using Denja Abdullahi’s Mairogo and Jide Balogun’s The Desert in the river using sociological theory to investigate social vice that were present in the two texts and it is discovered that poetry is used as a means of achieving an egalitarian society.

 

CONTENT  PAGE

Title Page

Certificate

Dedication 

Acknowledgement

Abstract

Table of content

CHAPTER ONE

GENERAL INTRODUCTION

1.1  Introduction 

1.2  Purpose of the study 

1.3  Significance of the study 

1.4  Scope and Limitation of the study

1.5  Research methodology 

1.6  Chapterization

 

CHAPTER TWO

LITERATURE REVIEW

2.0  Introduction 

2.1  Sociological theory introduction

2.2  Relevance of sociological theory of literature

2.3  Importance of sociological theory

2.4  sociological theorist 

2.5  Social forces I n the development of sociological theory

2.6  Intellectual forces and the rise of sociological theory

2.7  The contemporary relevance of sociological theory

2.8  Relevance of sociological theory to the research work  

2.9  Conclusion

CHAPTER THREE 

3.0  Introduction 

3.1  Themes of social vice in Jide Balogun’s the desert in the River

3.2  Themes of social vice in Denja Abdullahi’s Mairogo 

3.3  Literary techniques employed

CHAPTER FOUR 

4.0  Introduction 

4.1  Summary  

4.2  Findings 

4.3  Conclusion 

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