| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 248 pages). |
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text file |
| Series |
Oxford studies in anthropological linguistics ; 22
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Oxford studies in anthropological linguistics ; 22.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-240) and index. |
| Contents |
1 Introduction; Part I: Style, Theme, and Composition in Genre; 2 The Logic of Proverbs; 3 Emergent Complexities and Complex Emergencies in Folktales; 4 Heroic Society in Interlacustrine Africa; Part II: A Genre-Powered Reading of Kachwenyanja; 5 Stanzas Need No Rhyme; 6 Significance Needs Time; 7 Summary and Conclusion; Appendix: A; Appendix: B; References; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z. |
| Summary |
The Powers of Genre describes a method for interpreting oral literature that depends upon and facilitates dialogue between insiders and outsiders to a tradition. Seitel illustrates this method with lively examples from Haya proverbs, folktales, and heroic verse. He then focuses on a single epic ballad to demonstrate, among other things, why stanzas need not rhyme, and how significance needs time in oral poetry and narrative. Making a controversial claim that an heroic age, similar to that of Ancient Greece, existed in Sub-Saharan Africa, this work will intrigue anyone who works in oral literat. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Haya (African people) -- Folklore.
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Haya (African people) |
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Folklore. |
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Folk literature, Haya -- History and criticism.
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Folk literature, Haya. |
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Oral tradition -- Tanzania.
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Oral tradition. |
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Tanzania. |
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Discourse analysis, Narrative -- Tanzania.
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Discourse analysis, Narrative. |
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Haya language.
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Haya language. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Folklore.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Seitel, Peter. Powers of genre. New York : Oxford University Press, 1999 (DLC) 98047851 |
| ISBN |
9780198027706 (electronic book) |
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0198027702 (electronic book) |
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019511700X (Cloth) |
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9780195117004 |
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