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Titolo: |
Parallel worlds : genre, discourse, and poetics in contemporary, colonial, and classic period Maya literature / / edited by Kerry M. Hull and Michael D. Carrasco
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Pubblicazione: | Boulder, : University Press of Colorado, c2012 |
Edizione: | 4th ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (508 p.) |
Disciplina: | 897/.42709 |
Soggetto topico: | Maya literature - History and criticism |
Maya poetry - History and criticism | |
Altri autori: |
HullKerry M
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Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Cover; Contents; Illustrations; Introduction; Part 1: Finding Continuities in Maya Poetics and Literature; 1. The Narrative Structure of Chol Folktales; Part 2: Establishing Traditions; 2. Syntactic Inversion (Hyperbaton) as a Literary Device in Maya Hieroglyphic Texts; 3. Poetic Tenacity; 4. The History, Rhetoric, and Poetics of Three Palenque Narratives; 5. Understanding Discourse; 6. Drawing and Designing with Words; 7. Narrative Structure and the Drum Major Headdress; Part 3: From Glyphs to Letters; 8. Creation Narratives in the Postclassic Maya Codices |
9. Some Historical Continuities in Lowland Maya Magical Speech Genres10. Appropriating Sacred Speech; 11. Poetics in the Popol Wuj; 12. The Use of Chiasmus by the Ancient K'iche' Maya; Part 4: Keepers of Tradition; 13. Before Poetry, the Words; 14. Humor through Yucatec Mayan Stories; 15. A Comparison of Narrative Style in Mopan and Itzaj Mayan; 16. The Lights Dim but Don't Go Out on the Stars of Yucatec Maya Oral Literature; 17. To Speak the Words of Colonial Tzotzil; Index | |
Titolo autorizzato: | Parallel worlds ![]() |
ISBN: | 1-4571-1753-3 |
1-4571-1755-X | |
1-60732-180-7 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910814790903321 |
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