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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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