The Powers of Genre

Name: The Powers of Genre
Author: Peter (Senior Folklorist, Center for Folklife Programs and Cultural Studies, Senior Folklorist, Center for Folklife Programs and Cultural Studies, Smithsonian Institute) Seitel

Interpreting Haya Oral Literature

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Gebonden, 264 blz. | Engels

| e druk, 1999

ISBN13: 9780195117004

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e druk, 1999 9780195117004

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The Powers of Genre describes a method for interpreting oral literature that enables dialogue between insiders and outsiders to a tradition. Seitel illustrates this method with lively examples from Haya (from Northwestern Tanzania) proverbs, folktales, and heroic verse. He then focuses on a single epic ballad to demonstrate, among other things, why stanzas need not rhyme, and how significance needs time in oral poetry and narrative. He makes a controversial claim that an heroic age, similar to that of Ancient Greece, existed in Sub-Saharan Africa. The work should interest anyone who works in oral literature and narrative -- folklorists, literary critics, anthropologists, linguists, and Africanists.

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ISBN13:9780195117004

Taal:Engels

Bindwijze:Gebonden

Aantal pagina's:264

Hoofdrubriek:Woordenboeken en taal

Serie:Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics

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