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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Format: | Électronique eBook |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
©1999.
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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