Work Classification Layer
Compare Works
Pick two or more works to set their attribute fingerprints, dimension-by-dimension passages, and shared school embodiments side by side. Especially useful for author-stage comparisons (Wittgenstein early vs late) and for setting a single tradition's foundational texts against each other.
Myth, Literature and the African World
Soyinka's 1976 Cambridge lectures — Yoruba metaphysics and the proper critical reading of African literature
Attribute Fingerprint
Rows where works disagree are highlighted in gold. The full ontology grid is shown.
| Attribute | Myth, Literature and the African World (Mid) |
|---|---|
| Time · Extent | Infinite |
| Time · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Time · Grain | Continuous |
| Time · Freedom | Non-Deterministic |
| Time · Traversability | Non-Linear |
| Time · Dimensionality | One |
| Time · Direction | Bi-directional |
| Space · Extent | Infinite |
| Space · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Space · Curvature | Flat |
| Space · Dimensionality | Three |
| Space · Locality | Local |
| Matter · Extent | Infinite |
| Matter · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Matter · Conservation | Conserved |
| Matter · Dimensionality | Three |
| Matter · Locality | Local |
| Observer · Time Instance | Multiple |
| Observer · Space Instance | Multiple |
| Observer · Knowledge Extent | Partial |
| Observer · Knowledge Retainment | Total |
| Observer · Physicality | Embodied |
| Observer · Agency | Active |
| Observer · Number | Plural |
| Observer · Metaphysical Agency | Personal |
| Observer · Moral Authority | Tradition |
| Observer · Theological Method | — |
| Energy · Extent | Infinite |
| Energy · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Energy · Conservation | Conserved |
| Energy · Dispersibility | Reversible |
| Information · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Information · Cosmic Conservation | Conserved |
| Information · Personal Conservation | Conserved |
| Information · Granularity | Continuous |
Dimension-by-Dimension Evidence
What each work's passages reveal about its stance on each of the six dimensions.
Time
Myth, Literature and the African World
The 1973 Cambridge lectures and the broader Yoruba metaphysical-historical inheritance.
Space
Myth, Literature and the African World
The Yoruba cosmic spaces (living, dead, unborn) and the African-literary world.
Matter
Myth, Literature and the African World
The embodied African literary-philosophical inheritance and its critical address.
Observer
Myth, Literature and the African World
The proper African-critical reader as participant in the metaphysical tradition.
Energy
Myth, Literature and the African World
The tragic-Ogunian energies of African artistic creation.
Information
Myth, Literature and the African World
The Yoruba-metaphysical and African-literary content of the lectures.
Internal Tensions
Where each work's argument pulls against itself.
Soyinka's Yoruba-centred framework has been variously assessed — defenders see proper African-philosophical recovery, critics (some negritudinist, some pan-African) contest its Yoruba specificity.