Literary Studies
Browse by
Recent Submissions
-
Reading Literacy in relation to patterns of academic achievement in Kenya
(UMEA, 1995)How is reading literacy related to academic achievement among 14 year old students in Kenya? This was the main issue in focus for the present study. The lEA Reading Literacy Test was used for measuring reading literacy ... -
Gender spaces in Maragoli children's play poetry
(Maseno university, 2013)Children's play poetry exhibits gender spaces owing to the children's reactions to social, political and economic issues about their community. The gender spaces assigned to each gender also depict gender roles as well ... -
The Depiction of Jesus Christ as an Epic Hero in The Gospel According to Matthew
(Maseno University, 2018)ABSTRACT In the past the Bible was studied as a purely religious text but now there is a revolution in its study. At the centre of this revolution is a growing awareness that the Bible is literature, taken that literature ... -
The denigration of the male image in Marjorie Oludhe Macgoye’s selected novels
(Maseno University, 2015)This study investigates Marjorie Oludhe’s portrayal of male image in Coming to Birth and The Present Moment. Of primary influence to the study is that little attention has been given to the analysis of women’s writings in ... -
Beyond the tirade: the portrayal of Kenya’s historical process in Miguna Miguna’s autobiographical works
(Maseno University, 2017)Literature and history represent the morphing of social, political and cultural realities. The two employ similar techniques so that in a subtle sense literature is really an artistic reflection of history. The historical ... -
Portrait of displacement, migration and Transculturalism in the novels of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
(Maseno University, 2018)ABSTRACT The socio-cultural patterns of the twenty first-century have increased people’s mobility across the planet. The cultural complexities and interactions that these combined factors generate seem to foster an emerging ... -
The Place of Indigenous Theatre in Early Childhood Development in Ugenya Sub-County of Kenya
(Maseno University, 2017)Children’s right to participate in cultural and artistic life is enshrined in policy documents yet in practice, it is only considered when other basic rights have been fulfilled. Theatrical genres in ECD are privileged ...
RSS 1.0