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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457787103321

Titolo

Literary anthropology [[electronic resource] ] : a new interdisciplinary approach to people, signs, and literature / / edited by Fernando Poyatos

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 1988

ISBN

1-280-87956-4

9786613720870

90-272-7508-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (376 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

PoyatosFernando

Disciplina

801/.95

Soggetti

Literature and anthropology

Anthropology in literature

Oral tradition in literature

Anthropology

Signs and symbols

Semiotics

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. Signs, culture, and literature : toward a theory of literary anthropology -- pt. 2. National narratives and ethnic narratives -- pt. 3. Literary anthropology of three rural worlds -- pt. 4. Two genre approaches to literary anthropology.

Sommario/riassunto

The traditional gulf between the theory and practice of literature and the various areas subjoined under anthropology has hindered the development of some very fruitful perspectives in the realm of poetics and the general theory of literature (particularly in its narrative forms). Poyatos' initial idea of literary anthropology as the study of people and their cultural manifestations through their national literatures - without doubt the richest source of documentation of human life-styles and the most advanced form of our projection in time and space and of communicating with contemporary and