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THE POWERS OF GENRE
INTERPRETING HAYA ORAL LITERATURE |
| By: |
Peter Seitel |
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Hardback |
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| ISBN 10: |
019511700X |
| ISBN 13: |
9780195117004 |
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| Publisher: |
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS INC |
| Pub. date: |
1 November, 1998 |
| Series: |
Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics 22 |
| Pages: |
258 |
| Description: |
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 controversialclaim 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. |
| Synopsis: |
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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US |
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Oxford University Press Inc |
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