Bauman A World of Others' Words

Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Intertextuality
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-1-4051-4361-5
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 200 Seiten, E-Book

Drawing on his work in Iceland, Ireland, Scotland, North America,Ghana, and Fiji, linguistic anthropologist and folklorist RichardBauman presents a series of ethnographic case studies that offer asparkling look at intertextuality as communicative practice.
* * A fascinating perspective on intertextuality: the idea thatwritten and spoken texts speak to one another, e.g. through genreor allusions.
* Presents a series of ethnographic case studies to illustratethe topic.
* Draws on a broad range of oral performances and literaryrecords from across the world.
* The author's introduction sets a framework for theanalysis of genre, perform and intertextuality.
* Shows how performers blend genres, e.g., telling stories aboutriddles or legends about magical verses, or constructing salespitches.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bauman, Richard

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments vii
Note on Transcription x
1 Introduction: Genre, Performance, and the Production of Intertextuality 1
2 "And the Verse is Thus": Icelandic Stories About Magical Poems 15
3 "I'll Give You Three Guesses": The Dynamics of Genre in the Riddle Tale 34
4 "What Shall We Give You?": Calibrations of Genre in a Mexican Market 58
5 "Bell, You Get the Spotted Pup": First Person Narratives of a Texas Storyteller 82
6 "That I Can't Tell You": Negotiating Performance with a Nova Scotia Fisherman 109
7 "Go, My Reciter, Recite My Words": Mediation, Tradition, Authority 128
8 Epilogue 159
Notes 163
References 167
Index 178

Über Autor(innen)

Richard Bauman is Distinguished Professor of Folklore and Ethnomusicology, Communication and Culture, and Anthropology, and Director of the Folklore Institute at Indiana University, Bloomington. His books include Verbal Art as Performance (1977), Let Your Words Be Few (1983), Story, Performance, and Event (1986), and Voices of Modernity (with Charles L. Briggs, 2003).