Homo Narrans

The Poetics and Anthropology of Oral Literature

Autor: John D. Niles

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Oprawa: Miękka

Wydawca: University of Pennsylvania Press

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It would be difficult to imagine what human life would be like without stories-from myths recited by...

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Autor

John D. Niles

Język

Angielski

Oprawa

Książka - Miękka

Data wydania

2010

strony

296

EAN

9780812221077

ISBN

0812221079

Enbook ID

04723483

Wydawca

University of Pennsylvania Press

Waga

466

Wymiary

155 x 229 x 18

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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.

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