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Overview
Overview
The Powers of Genre describes a method for interpreting oral literature that depends upon and facilitates dialogue between insiders and outsiders to a tradition. Seitel illustrates this method with LiveLy examples from Haya proverbs, folktales, and heroic verse. He then focuses on a single epic ballad to demonstrate, among other things, why stanzas need not rhyme, and how significance needs time in oral poetry and narrative. Making a controversial claim that an heroic age, similar to that of Ancient Greek, I existed in Sub-Saharan Africa, this work will intrigue anyone who works in oral literature and narrative.
- Format: Hardcover
- Author: Seitel, Peter
- ISBN: 9780195117004
- Condition: Used
- Dimensions: 8.84 x 0.86
- Number Of Pages: 264
- Publication Year: 1999
Language:
English
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