Literary Anthropology
A new interdisciplinary approach to people, signs and literature
Editor
| University of New Brunswick
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 future generations - has been enriched by the thoughts of a multi-cultural group of scholars from both anthropology and literature who at a first symposium on the subject attempted to define this area leaving the way open to many more research possibilities.
[Not in series, 36] 1988. xxiii, 342 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
Introduction
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xi
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Part I. Signs, Culture, and Literature: Toward a Theory of Literary Anthropology
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1. Literary anthropology: toward a new interdisciplinary area
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3
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51
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63
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Part II. National Narratives and Ethnic Narratives
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75
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95
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127
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141
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161
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Part III. Literary Anthropology of Three Rural Worlds
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173
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195
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257
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Part IV. Two Genre Approaches to Literary Anthropology
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273
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305
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14. Symposium on Literary Anthropology — transcript of the closing discussion
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327
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List of contributors
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339
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Name index
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343
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Subject index
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351
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Subjects
Linguistics
Literature & Literary Studies
BIC Subject: DSB – Literary studies: general
BISAC Subject: LIT000000 – LITERARY CRITICISM / General