Native American discourse : poetics and rhetoric : Workshop : Papers / edited by Joel Sherzer and Anthony C. Woodbury
1987, 1st edition. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #424380
ISBN: 0521329361
Physical description; x, 246 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Contents; Tonka poetics: John Rush Buffalo's "Coyote and Eagle's Daughter -- Warm Springs Sahaptin narrative analysis -- Poetic structuring of Kuna discourse: the line -- Hearing a voice in an ancient text: Quiché Maya poetics in performance -- Rhetorical structure in a Central Alaskan Yupik Eskimo traditional narrative. Subjects; Indian literature History and criticism. Folk literature, Indian History and criticism. Indians of North America Languages Discourse analysis. Indians of Central America Languages Discourse analysis. Folk literature, Indian. Indian literature.
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