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Author : Leteipa Ole Sunkuli
Release : 1990
Genre : Social Science
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Book Synopsis A Dictionary of Oral Literature by : Leteipa Ole Sunkuli
Download or read book A Dictionary of Oral Literature written by Leteipa Ole Sunkuli. This book was released on 1990. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Simon Okumba Miruka
Release : 1994
Genre : Fiction
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Book Synopsis Encounter with Oral Literature by : Simon Okumba Miruka
Download or read book Encounter with Oral Literature written by Simon Okumba Miruka. This book was released on 1994. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author has undertaken extensive research in oral literature and is the author of A Dictionary of Oral Literature. Here he uses an anthological approach to examine the various genres of oral literature both at the theoretical and analytical level. The anthology emphasises the areas of definition, classification, style and themes. The book is essentially an analysis of the four genres of riddles, proverbs, oral poetry and narratives. It introduces a new way of looking at oral literature, particularly in the case of riddles and proverbs which have received little analytical attention locally in terms of classifying them and discussing their styles and social functions. The author contends that the four genres exist in a continuum rather than as disparate phenomena.
Author : Benjamin A. Stolz
Release : 1976
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Book Synopsis Oral Literature and the Formula by : Benjamin A. Stolz
Download or read book Oral Literature and the Formula written by Benjamin A. Stolz. This book was released on 1976. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Andrew Wiget
Release : 1994-10-25
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Synopsis Dictionary of Native American Literature by : Andrew Wiget
Download or read book Dictionary of Native American Literature written by Andrew Wiget. This book was released on 1994-10-25. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dictionary of Native American Literature is a unique, comprehensive, and authoritative guide to the oral and written literatures of Native Americans. It lays the perfect foundation for understanding the works of Native. The book features reports on the oral traditions of various tribes and topics such as the relation of the Bible, dreams, oratory, humor, autobiography, and federal land policies to Native American literature. Eight additional essays cover teaching Native American literature, new fiction, new theater, and other important topics, and there are bio-critical essays on more than 40 writers ranging from William Apes (who in the early 19th century denounced white society's treatment of his people) to contemporary poet Ray Young Bear. Packed with information that was once scattered and scarce, the Dictionary of Native American Literature -a valuable one-volume resource-is sure to appeal to everyone interested in Native American history, culture, and literature.
Author : John D. Niles
Release : 2010-08-03
Genre : Social Science
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Book Synopsis Homo Narrans by : John D. Niles
Download or read book Homo Narrans written by John D. Niles. This book was released on 2010-08-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It would be difficult to imagine what human life would be like without stories—from myths recited by Pueblo Indian healers in the kiva, ballads sung in Slovenian market squares, folktales and legends told by the fireside in Italy, to jokes told at a dinner table in Des Moines—for it is chiefly through storytelling that people possess a past. In Homo Narrans John D. Niles explores how human beings shape their world through the stories they tell. The book vividly 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, such as the epic poems and hymns of early Greece and the Anglo-Saxon Beowulf, texts that we know only through written versions but that are grounded in oral technique. That all forms of narrative, even the most sophisticated genres of contemporary fiction, have their ultimate origin in storytelling is a point that scarcely needs to be argued. Niles's claims here are more ambitious: that oral narrative is and has long been the chief basis of culture itself, that the need to tell stories is what distinguishes humans from all other living creatures.
