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Oxford University Press The Powers of Genre: Interpreting Haya Oral Literature: 22 (Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics)

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The Powers of Genre describes a method for interpreting oral literature that enables dialogue between insiders and outsiders to a tradition. Seitel illustrates this method with lively examples from Haya (from Northwestern Tanzania) 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. He makes a controversial claim that an heroic age, similar to that of Ancient Greece, existed in Sub-Saharan Africa. The work should interest anyone who works in oral literature and narrative -- folklorists, literary critics, anthropologists, linguists, and Africanists.

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Brand: Oxford University Press
Colour: Red
Format: Hardcover
ASIN: 019511700X
Category: Books > Subjects > Language Study & Reference
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 08 April 1999
Listed Since: 06 February 2007

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