Literary anthropology : a new interdisciplinary approach to people, signs, and literature / / editor, Fernando Poyatos

• Pubblicazione: Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia : , : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., , 1988
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (376 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 801/.95
• Soggetto topico: Literature and anthropology; Anthropology in literature; Oral tradition in literature; Anthropology; Signs and symbols; Semiotics
• Altri autori: PoyatosFernando
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Literary anthropology
• ISBN: 1-280-87956-4; 9786613720870; 90-272-7508-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910781556003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II