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Author : Ruth H. Finnegan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Social Science
ISBN : IND:30000029829722
Author : Ruth Finnegan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134945399
Provides up-to-date guidance on how to approach the study of oral forms and their performances, examining both the practicalities of fieldwork and the methods by which oral texts and performances can be observed, collected and analysed.
Author : Ruth Finnegan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:841186318
Author : Richard Bauman
Publisher : Waveland Press
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1984-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781478607984
The cross-disciplinary and integrative nature of sociolinguistics is clearly evidenced in this highly regarded, insightful volume. Baumans holistic study brings together the separate fields of folklore, anthropology, linguistics, and literary criticism as they focus on verbal art. The work represented here is a clear assembly of perspectives and methodology of these disciplines from the viewpoint of performanceartistic action and artistic event. The basic principles underlying sociolinguistics (patterned variability and context as revealed through language) provide the coherence. In addition to Baumans useful conceptual framework, four lively, informative essays by leading scholars are included that clarify, illustrate, and amplify in an effort to treat verbal art as performance.
Author : Ruth H. Finnegan,Margaret Orbell
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0253328683
Exploring the oral traditions of the South Pacific, this work demonstrates that oral media and native cultural forms are vital throughout the South Pacific. It appeals to scholars concerned with the relationships between verbal art, social change, gender, power, and social organization.
Author : Lee Haring
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2017-01-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781512816693
A history of the encounter between Europeans and the colonized people with a groundbreaking analysis of four types of Malagasy folklore: riddles, proverbs, hainteny (dialogic exchanges of traditional metaphors), and oratory.
Author : Dennis L. Weeks,Jane Susan Hoogestraat
Publisher : Susquehanna University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 1575910098
Walter Ong pioneered the study of how orality and literacy mutually enrich each other in the evolution of human consciousness, arguing that verbal communication moves from orality to literacy and on to what he has termed the "secondary orality" of radio and television. The original essays in this volume explore the implications of Ong's work across the diverse fields of cultural history, literary theory, theology, philosophy, and anthropology. These scholars maintain that Ong's view of orality not only changes our readings of ancient and medieval texts, but that it also changes our understanding of the differing epistemologies of oral and literate cultures and of the coexistence of the oral and literate within a given culture.
Author : Joel Sherzer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 052138513X
This book represents the complete range of verbal performances in a single Native American society.
Author : William M. Clements
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1996-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0816516588
For more than four centuries, Europeans and Euroamericans have been making written records of the spoken words of American Indians. While some commentators have assumed that these records provide absolutely reliable information about the nature of Native American oral expression, even its esthetic qualities, others have dismissed them as inherently unreliable. In Native American Verbal Art: Texts and Contexts, William Clements offers a comprehensive treatment of the intellectual and cultural constructs that have colored the textualization of Native American verbal art. Clements presents six case studies of important moments, individuals, and movements in this history. He recounts the work of the Jesuits who missionized in New France during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and textualized and theorized about the verbal expressions of the Iroquoians and Algonquians to whom they were spreading Christianity. He examines in depth Henry TimberlakeÕs 1765 translation of a Cherokee war song that was probably the first printed English rendering of a Native American "poem." He discusses early-nineteenth-century textualizers and translators who saw in Native American verbal art a literature manquŽ that they could transform into a fully realized literature, with particular attention to the work of Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, an Indian agent and pioneer field collector who developed this approach to its fullest. He discusses the "scientific" textualizers of the late nineteenth century who viewed Native American discourse as a data source for historical, ethnographic, and linguistic information, and he examines the work of Natalie Curtis, whose field research among the Hopis helped to launch a wave of interest in Native Americans and their verbal art that continues to the present. In addition, Clements addresses theoretical issues in the textualization, translation, and anthologizing of American Indian oral expression. In many cases the past records of Native American expression represent all we have left of an entire verbal heritage; in most cases they are all that we have of a particular heritage at a particular point in history. Covering a broad range of materials and their historical contexts, Native American Verbal Art identifies the agendas that have informed these records and helps the reader to determine what remains useful in them. It will be a welcome addition to the fields of Native American studies and folklore.
Author : Ruth H. Finnegan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Social Science
ISBN : IND:30000029975178
Author : John Miles Foley
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0252070828
Drawing on many examples including an American slam poet, a Tibetan paper-singer, a South African praise-poet, and an ancient Greek bard (Homer) the author shows that although oral poetry predates writing it continues to be a vital culture-making and communications tool. Based on research on epics, folktales, lyrics, laments, charms, etc.--Back cover.
Author : John Miles Foley
Publisher : Modern Language Assn of Amer
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Education
ISBN : 0873523709
Contains articles by a variety of teacher-scholars in which they discuss the nature and scope of oral traditions in literature, examine methods for studying oral traditions, present tutorials on commonly taught works and areas, and review pedagogical examples and audiovisual resources.
Author : John Miles Foley
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2015-08-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780271072395
In recent decades, the evidence for an oral epic tradition in ancient Greece has grown enormously along with our ever-increasing awareness of worldwide oral traditions. John Foley here examines the artistic implications that oral tradition holds for the understanding of the Iliad and Odyssey in order to establish a context for their original performance and modern-day reception. In Homer's Traditional Art, Foley addresses three crucially interlocking areas that lead us to a fuller appreciation of the Homeric poems. He first explores the reality of Homer as their actual author, examining historical and comparative evidence to propose that "Homer" is a legendary and anthropomorphic figure rather than a real-life author. He next presents the poetic tradition as a specialized and highly resonant language bristling with idiomatic implication. Finally, he looks at Homer's overall artistic achievement, showing that it is best evaluated via a poetics aimed specifically at works that emerge from oral tradition. Along the way, Foley offers new perspectives on such topics as characterization and personal interaction in the epics, the nature of Penelope's heroism, the implications of feasting and lament, and the problematic ending of the Odyssey. His comparative references to the South Slavic oral epic open up new vistas on Homer's language, narrative patterning, and identity. Homer's Traditional Art represents a disentangling of the interwoven strands of orality, textuality, and verbal art. It shows how we can learn to appreciate how Homer's art succeeds not in spite of the oral tradition in which it was composed but rather through its unique agency.
Author : Dirk Bustorf,Sophia Dege-Müller,Alexander Meckelburg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3447110546
Author : Haun Saussy
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780823270484
Winner of the Modern Language Association's Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies Who speaks? The author as producer, the contingency of the text, intertextuality, the “device”—core ideas of modern literary theory—were all pioneered in the shadow of oral literature. Authorless, loosely dated, and variable, oral texts have always posed a challenge to critical interpretation. When it began to be thought that culturally significant texts—starting with Homer and the Bible—had emerged from an oral tradition, assumptions on how to read these texts were greatly perturbed. Through readings that range from ancient Greece, Rome, and China to the Cold War imaginary, The Ethnography of Rhythm situates the study of oral traditions in the contentious space of nineteenth- and twentieth-century thinking about language, mind, and culture. It also demonstrates the role of technologies in framing this category of poetic creation. By making possible a new understanding of Maussian “techniques of the body” as belonging to the domain of Derridean “arche-writing,” Haun Saussy shows how oral tradition is a means of inscription in its own right, rather than an antecedent made obsolete by the written word or other media and data-storage devices.