"in Vain I Tried to Tell You": Essays in Native American Ethnopoetics

ISBN-13: 9780812278064 / Angielski / Twarda / 1981 / 416 str.

Dell Hymes

Opis

And many folklorists and anthropologists are likely to say, "too linguistic" and "too literary" both, whereas professors of literature are likely to say, "anthropological" or "folklore," not "literature" at all. Within that way of life, and now, I hope, within others, it offers some of the rewards and joys of literature.

Recenzje

"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