Homo Narrans: The Poetics and Anthropology of Oral Literature Niles John D.
Homo Narrans: The Poetics and Anthropology of Oral Literature Niles John D. It would be difficult to imagine what human life would be like without stories--from myths recited by Pueblo Indian healers…
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Homo Narrans: The Poetics and Anthropology of Oral Literature Niles John D.
It would be difficult to imagine what human life would be like without stories--from myths recited by Pueblo Indian healers in the kiva, ballads sung in Slovenian market squares, folktales and legends told by the fireside in Italy, to jokes told at a dinner table in Des Moines--for it is chiefly through storytelling that people possess a past.In Homo Narrans John D. The book vividly 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 explores how human beings shape their world through the stories they tell.
His investigation of the poetics of oral narrative encompasses Niles ponders the nature of the storytelling impulse, the social function of narrative, and the role of individual talent in oral tradition.
A Beowulf Handbook Niles John D.