"In vain I tried to tell you" :essays in Native American ethnopoetics
- 作者: Hymes, Dell H.
- 出版:
- 稽核項: 1 online resource (402 pages) :maps.
- 叢書名: Studies in Native American literature ;1 , University of Pennsylvania publications in conduct and communication
- 標題: Indiens d'Amérique , USA , LITERARY CRITICISM Native American. , Poetry , Indianer. , Pacific Northwest. , essays. , Folklore. , Indianer , Criticism, interpretation, etc. , Indiens d'Amérique Amérique du Nord -- Légendes -- Histoire et critique. , History and criticism. , Poésie. , Indians of North America Northwest, Pacific -- Poetry -- History and criticism. , Poetry. , Indians of North America. , Native American. , LITERARY CRITICISM , Histoire et critique. , Electronic books. , Indiens d'Amérique États-Unis (Nord-Ouest) -- Poésie -- Histoire et critique. , Indians of North America Northwest, Pacific -- Folklore. , Essay , LégendesHistoire et critique. , USA. , Indians of North America , poetry. , Essais. , Indiens d'Amérique États-Unis (Nord-Ouest) -- Folklore. , Lyrik , Essays.
- ISBN: 1512802913 , 9781512802917
- ISBN: 0812278062 , 9780812278064 , 0812211170 , 9780812211177
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- 附註: Includes bibliographical references (pages 386-398) and indexes. Unsuspected devices and designs -- Breakthrough to performance -- Titles, names, and natures.
- 摘要: A landmark volume that revolutionized our understanding of the power and significance of Native stories and storytellers in North America, "In vain I tried to tell you" showcases the methodology and theory of ethnopoetics. Focusing on the rich Native storytelling traditions of the Pacific Northwest, Hymes investigates what particular stylistic and linguistic devices and patterns in oral tales reveal about rhythm and order in the cultures creating them. A breathtaking series of analyses of particular myths and their relationship to performance forms the centerpiece of this volume. The concluding essays explore Native perspectives and approaches to stories, highlighting the reasons behind the storytellers' choices of characters, genres, and titles.
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From the Introduction: This book is . . . devoted to the first literature of North America, that of the American Indians, or Native Americans. The texts are from the North Pacific Coast, because that is where I am from, and those are the materials I know best. The purpose is general: All traditional American Indian verbal art requires attention of this kind if we are to comprehend what it is and says. There is linguistics in this book, and that will put some people off. ''Too technical," they will say. Perhaps such people would be amused to know that many linguists will not regard the work as linguistics. "Not theoretical," they will say, meaning not part of a certain school of grammar. And many folklorists and anthropologists are likely to say, "too linguistic" and "too literary" both, whereas professors of literature are likely to say, "anthropological" or "folklore," not "literature" at all. But there is no help for it. As with Beowulf and The Tale of Genji, the material requires some understanding of a way of life. Within that way of life, it has in part a role that in English can only be called that of "literature." Within that way of life, and now, I hope, within others, it offers some of the rewards and joys of literature. And if linguistics is the study of language, not grammar alone, then the study of these materials adds to what is known about language.
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