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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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Homo Narrans: the Poetics and Anthropology of Oral Literature
2011, University of Pennsylvania Press
in English
1283889994 9781283889995
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Homo Narrans: The Poetics and Anthropology of Oral Literature
Mar 19, 2010, University of Pennsylvania Press
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0812221079 9780812221077
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Homo Narrans: The Poetics and Anthropology of Oral Literature
2010, University of Pennsylvania Press
in English
0812202953 9780812202953
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Homo Narrans: The Poetics and Anthropology of Oral Literature
August 1999, University of Pennsylvania Press
Hardcover
in English
0812235045 9780812235043
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"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."
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