Parallel worlds [[electronic resource] ] : genre, discourse, and poetics in contemporary, colonial, and classic period Maya literature / / edited by Kerry M. Hull and Michael D. Carrasco

• 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 CarrascoMichael
• 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.: 9910790351303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II