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BL
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842492
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| Main Entry
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Niles, John D.
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| Title & Author
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Homo Narrans : : the poetics and anthropology of oral literature /\ John D. Niles.
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| Publication Statement
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Philadelphia :: University of Pennsylvania Press,, ©1999.
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280 pages :: illustrations ;; 23 cm
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| ISBN
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0812221079
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: 0812235045
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: 9780812221077
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: 9780812235043
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references ([237]-264) and index.
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| Contents
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Making connections -- Somatic communication -- Poetry as social praxis -- Oral poetry acts -- Beowulf as ritualized discourse -- Context and loss -- The strong tradition-bearer -- Conclusion: wordpower wells from deep in the throat.
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| Abstract
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"In Homo Narrans John D. Niles explores how human beings shape their world through the stories they tell. This book weaves together the study of Anglo-Saxon literature and culture with the author's own engagements in the field with some of the greatest twentieth-century singers and storytellers in the Scottish tradition. Niles ponders the nature of the storytelling impulse, the social function of narrative, and the role of individual talent in oral tradition. His investigation of the poetics of oral narrative encompasses literary works that we know only through written texts but that are grounded in oral technique - works such as the epic poems and hymns of early Greece and the Anglo-Saxon heroic poem Beowulf."--Jacket.
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Folk literature.
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Oral tradition.
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Storytelling.
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Art de conter.
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Littérature populaire.
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Tradition orale.
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Art de conter.
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Folk literature.
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Littérature populaire.
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Mündliche Literatur
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Mündliche Überlieferung
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Oral tradition.
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Storytelling.
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Tradition orale.
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Volkskunde
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Mondelinge literatuur.
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Vertelkunst.
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Volksverhalen.
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| Dewey Classification
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398.2
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| LC Classification
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GR72.3.N56 1999
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17.91bcl
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EC 8200rvk
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LC 66000rvk
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LC 76000rvk
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