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Item The conflict of the Epistemologies in Turgenev’s Russia and its resonance with the African intellectual crisis(Research Review 26(1): 1-22, 2010) Adam, G.N.Turgenev’s fathers and sons is not only about a generational conflict, it also depicts a crisis in the paradigms of knowledge in nineteen the century Russia. While the nobility revel in the arts, letters and aesthetics, the nihilists dismiss them as romantic nonsense. For them the only worthwhile knowledge is that which has practical value and can be varied in the laboratory. This paper sifts the nuggets from the otherwise nihilist dross, and pushes the debate to the frontiers of the African experience insinuating the culpability of the dominant intellectual paradigms in perpetuating the continent’s crisis of underdevelopment.Item The role of metaphor in the stylistics rendition of Gogols “Dead Souls”(Legon Journal of the Humanities (xix): 53-75, 2008) Adam, G.N.Metaphor is probably the most useful linguistics tool in creative and imaginative literature. This is especially so with Gogol’s Dead Souls. From micro images depicted in the submerged metaphor, compound metaphor, implicit metaphor and allusions, metaphorical images in the novel extend to straddle entire supra phrasal units. This paper argues that a deeper understanding of the metaphor is necessary for a better appreciation of Dead Souls which is one extended metaphor of the road. Gogol himself describes it as a noэma (poem) because of its complex and elevated thoughts encapsulated mostly in the use of the metaphor.