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The poem in the story : music, poetry, and narrative / Harold Scheub.

Penn Museum Library GR359 .S337 2002
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Scheub, Harold.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Tales--South Africa--History and criticism.
Tales.
Oral tradition--South Africa.
Oral tradition.
Folk music, African.
Folk poetry, African.
South Africa.
Physical Description:
xx, 316 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm
Place of Publication:
Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, [2002]
Contents:
Prelude 3
The Poem and the Story: The Poetics of Storytelling 23
The Poem in the Story: Myth, Music, Metaphor 173
Myth: The Raw Materials
Myth and Transformation 183
Music: Ordering the Raw Materials
The Creation of Metaphor 199
Metaphor: Preparation for Performance
Myth, Metaphor, Meaning 215
A Storyteller Guards the Poem in Her Story 229.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-295) and index.
ISBN:
029918210X
0299182142
OCLC:
49519044

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