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dc.contributor.authorMelamu, Moteane John
dc.date.accessioned2014-12-03T09:03:20Z
dc.date.available2014-12-03T09:03:20Z
dc.date.issued2011-04-13
dc.identifier.citationMelamu, Moteane John (2011) The quest, Inaugural Lecture No. 20, pp 1-40en_US
dc.identifier.isbn978 99912 485 7 8
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10311/1299
dc.description.abstractThe lecture charts the development of the speaker as a student and teacher of English Literature. This development is conceived in terms of a metaphorical ‘journey’, beginning from early childhood, with all the difficulties attendant upon the attempt to learn English in unconducive, non-English-speaking conditions in an African ghetto. The journey proceeds from the speaker’s progression from primary school, through to secondary school, to university, with all the impediments to learn a foreign language and to come to grips with its literature. The journey continues with the speaker’s confrontation with the challenges of teaching literature at tertiary level. This journey is seen as motivated by the travel motif in selected classical, traditional English and African literature texts, in which the protagonists are, like the speaker, involved in “journeys” of discovery and self-realisation. But whereas the quests of these protagonists end with a kind of “resolution”, the speaker concludes that his particular quest, being a literary venture, must of necessity be infinite.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipUniversity of Botswanaen_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherCentre for Continuing Education, University of Botswana, http://www.ub.bwen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesInaugural Lecture Series;No. 20
dc.subjectQuesten_US
dc.subjectEgo tripen_US
dc.subjectCommunicationen_US
dc.subjectMetaphorical journeyen_US
dc.subjectIdentityen_US
dc.subjectSearchen_US
dc.subjectDiscoveryen_US
dc.subjectTeachingen_US
dc.subjectLiteratureen_US
dc.subjectChallengesen_US
dc.subjectEducatoren_US
dc.subjectLiterary pilgrimen_US
dc.subjectLiterary odysseyen_US
dc.subjectResolution lifeen_US
dc.subjectInfinityen_US
dc.subjectTreasuresen_US
dc.subjectEternally potentialen_US
dc.titleThe questen_US
dc.typeInaugural Lectureen_US
dc.rights.holderCentre for Continuing Education, University of Botswanaen_US


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