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The Poetics and Anthropology of Oral Literature

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An edition of Homo Narrans (1999)

Homo Narrans

The Poetics and Anthropology of Oral Literature

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"In Homo Narrans John D. Niles explores how human beings shape their world through the stories they tell. This book weaves together the study of Anglo-Saxon literature and culture with the author's own engagements in the field with some of the greatest twentieth-century singers and storytellers in the Scottish tradition. Niles ponders the nature of the storytelling impulse, the social function of narrative, and the role of individual talent in oral tradition.

His investigation of the poetics of oral narrative encompasses literary works that we know only through written texts but that are grounded in oral technique - works such as the epic poems and hymns of early Greece and the Anglo-Saxon heroic poem Beowulf."--BOOK JACKET.

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Language
English
Pages
280

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Cover of: Homo Narrans
Homo Narrans: the Poetics and Anthropology of Oral Literature
2011, University of Pennsylvania Press
in English
Cover of: Homo Narrans
Homo Narrans: The Poetics and Anthropology of Oral Literature
2010, University of Pennsylvania Press
in English
Cover of: Homo Narrans
Homo Narrans: The Poetics and Anthropology of Oral Literature
Mar 19, 2010, University of Pennsylvania Press
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Cover of: Homo Narrans
Homo Narrans: The Poetics and Anthropology of Oral Literature
August 1999, University of Pennsylvania Press
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First Sentence

"Oral narrative, or what we call storytelling in everyday speech, is as much around us as the air we breathe, although we often take its casual forms so much for granted that we are scarcely aware of them."

Classifications

Library of Congress
GR72.3 .N56 1999, GR72.3.N56 1999

The Physical Object

Format
Hardcover
Number of pages
280
Dimensions
9.1 x 6.3 x 0.8 inches
Weight
1.4 pounds

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL9439348M
ISBN 10
0812235045
ISBN 13
9780812235043
LCCN
99010074
OCLC/WorldCat
40856782
Library Thing
3463773
Goodreads
36229

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