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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Poyatos, Fernando.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature and anthropology--Congresses.

Literature and anthropology.

Anthropology in literature--Congresses.

Anthropology in literature.

Oral tradition in literature--Congresses.

Oral tradition in literature.

Anthropology--Congresses.

Anthropology.

Signs and symbols--Congresses.

Signs and symbols.

Semiotics--Congresses.

Semiotics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (376 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 1988.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

1-280-87956-4

9786613720870

90-272-7508-4

OCLC:

769342210