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Homo Narrans : the poetics and anthropology of oral literature /

It would be difficult to imagine what human life would be like without stories--from myths recited by Pueblo Indian healers in the kiva, ballads sung in Slovenian market squares, folktales and legends told by the fireside in Italy, to jokes told at a dinner table in Des Moines--for it is chiefly thr...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Niles, John D.
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©1999.
Collection:JSTOR EBA.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • List of Abbreviations
  • 1. Making Connections
  • 2. Somatic Communication
  • 3. Poetry as Social Praxis
  • 4. Oral Poetry Acts
  • 5. Beowulf as Ritualized Discourse
  • 6. Context and Loss
  • 7. The Strong Tradition-Bearer
  • Conclusion: Wordpower Wells from Deep in the Throat
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index