Craig Mishler

The Blind Man and the Loon

The Story of a Tale

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Produktbeschreibung

Craig Mishler is an affiliate research professor with the Alaska Native Language Center at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks. He is the editor of Neerihiinj¿ We Traveled from Place to Place:¿The Gwich¿in Stories of Johnny and Sarah Frank and¿the author of The Crooked Stovepipe: Athapaskan Fiddle Music and Square Dancing in Northeast Alaska and Northwest Canada.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 152mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 567g
• ISBN-13: 9780803239821
• ISBN-10: 0803239823
• Artikelnr.: 36758133

Autorenporträt

Craig Mishler is an affiliate research professor with the Alaska Native Language Center at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks. He is the editor of Neerihiinjìk: We Traveled from Place to Place: The Gwich'in Stories of Johnny and Sarah Frank and the author of The Crooked Stovepipe: Athapaskan Fiddle Music and Square Dancing in Northeast Alaska and Northwest Canada.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Story of a Tale
1. The History and Geography of the Tale
2. The Writing of the Tale
3. The Tale Behind the Tale
4. The Telling of the Tale
5. The Art of the Tale
6. The Mediated and Theatrical Tale
7. The Power of the Tale
Conclusion and Afterword
Appendix A: Paradigm of Tale Traits
Appendix B: Annotated Bibliography of Variants
Appendix C: Knud Rasmussen's Greenlandic Variants
Appendix D: The Steenholdt Text and Additional Variants from Hinrich Rink's
Collection
Notes
References
Index