Dell Hymes

In Vain I Tried to Tell You

Essays in Native American Ethnopoetics

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• Conduct and Communication
• Verlag: De Gruyter
• Reprint 2016 edition
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Oktober 1981
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 160mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 766g
• ISBN-13: 9780812278064
• ISBN-10: 0812278062
• Artikelnr.: 48271477

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By Dell Hymes

Inhaltsangabe

Tables
Introduction
Ethnological Note
Orthographic Note
PART ONE. UNSUSPECTED DEVICES AND DESIGNS
1 Some North Pacific Coast Poems: A Problem in Anthropological Philology
2 How to Talk Like a Bear in Takelma
PART TWO. BREAKTHROUGH TO PERFORMANCE
3 Breakthrough into Performance
4 Louis Simpson's "The Deserted Boy"
5 Verse Analysis of a Wasco Text: Hiram Smith's "At'unaqa"
6 Breakthrough into Performance Revisited
PART THREE. TITLES, NAMES, AND NATURES
7 Myth and Tale Titles of the Lower Chinook
8 The "Wife" Who "Goes Out" Like a Man: Reinterpretation of a Clackamas
Chinook Myth
9 Discovering Oral Performance and Measured Verse in American Indian
Narrative
10 Reading Clackamas Texts
Epilog
Index to Analyzed Translations and English-Language Texts
Bibliography
Index

Rezensionen

"The most important work in recent decades on the poetics of Native American oral traditions. . . . Hymes restores voice to oral texts that have been little more than museum pieces."--World Literature "A gem that should be required reading for every aspiring and practicing folklorist."--Journal of American Folklore "An important landmark."--Choice