"In vain I tried to tell you" - Essays in Native American Ethnopoetics

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List of contents

Tables

Introduction

Ethnological Note

Orthographic Note

PART ONE. UNSUSPECTED DEVICES AND DESIGNS

1 Some North Pacific Coast Poems: A Problem in Anthropological Philology

2 How to Talk Like a Bear in Takelma

PART TWO. BREAKTHROUGH TO PERFORMANCE

3 Breakthrough into Performance

4 Louis Simpson's "The Deserted Boy"

5 Verse Analysis of a Wasco Text: Hiram Smith's "At'unaqa"

6 Breakthrough into Performance Revisited

PART THREE. TITLES, NAMES, AND NATURES

7 Myth and Tale Titles of the Lower Chinook

8 The "Wife" Who "Goes Out" Like a Man: Reinterpretation of a Clackamas Chinook Myth

9 Discovering Oral Performance and Measured Verse in American Indian Narrative

10 Reading Clackamas Texts

Epilog

Index to Analyzed Translations and English-Language Texts

Bibliography

Index

About the author

By Dell Hymes

Report

"The most important work in recent decades on the poetics of Native American oral traditions. . . . Hymes restores voice to oral texts that have been little more than museum pieces."--World Literature "A gem that should be required reading for every aspiring and practicing folklorist."--Journal of American Folklore "An important landmark."--Choice

Product details

• Authors: Dell Hymes
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.10.1981
• EAN: 9780812278064
• ISBN: 978-0-8122-7806-4
• No. of pages: 406
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 31 mm x 230 mm
• Weight: 766 g
• Series: Conduct and Communication; Anniversary Collection
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories