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[E-BOOK] Homo Narrans : the Poetics and Anthropology of Oral Literature

It would be difficult to imagine what human life would be like without storiesfrom 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 Moinesfor it is chiefly through storytelling that people possess a past. InHomo NarransJohn 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.

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Call Number

398.2 Nil h

Publisher

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : University of Pennsylvania Press., 2010

Collation

1 online resource (296 pages) : illustrations

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

9780812202953

Classification

398.2

Content Type

text

Media Type

computer

Carrier Type

online resource

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Subject(s)

Storytelling
Oral tradition
Folk literature

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