Orality Talent and Creativity: A Synthesis
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.46881/ajh.v1i1.36Keywords:
orality, talent, creativity, literature, inspiration, environmentAbstract
The paper attempts a critical examination of the creative force of some writers and situates the propelling drive in them within orality, history, experience and imitation. Oscar Wilde locates this area of imitation within nature and praises creative artists for perfecting the unfinished works of nature. Even when Oscar Wilde tries to blame nature for its lack of design and orderliness, it is clear that nature is aglow in its supposed crudity. The thrust of the paper is that art is a universal language that thrives on representation. The basic theoretical claim of the paper is that the earliest writers such as Homer, Sophocles and Euripides dwell so much on the oral environment by exploring the supernatural infiltrations of the terrestrial realm as the vogue is a leaning towards phenomenal elements until attention shifts to physical and mundane issues,
especially those dwelling on history, the psychological sophistication of the characters, socio-political issues and the environment as a whole. From Chaucer to Shakespeare, art becomes a tool for analysing individual's romance with the society. The paper concludes that art is a means of resolving fundamental issues. In other words, art is a register of manners, conventions and norms, and the desire is to achieve cohesion in the society through the amplification of such socially desirable behaviours.
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