Literary Anthropology

A new interdisciplinary approach to people, signs and literature

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Fernando Poyatos

| University of New Brunswick

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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.

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https://doi.org/10.1075/z.36

Table of Contents

Introduction	xi
Part I. Signs, Culture, and Literature: Toward a Theory of Literary Anthropology
1. Literary anthropology: toward a new interdisciplinary area	3
2. Literature as a source for anthropological research: the case of Jaroslav Hašek’s Good soldier Švejk Thomas G. Winner	51
3. La théorie culturelle et les études littéraires: poétique et anthropologie littéraire Stéphane Sarkany	63
Part II. National Narratives and Ethnic Narratives
4. Davy Crockett and Mike Fink: An interpretation of cultural continuity and change Lucy Jayne Botscharow	75
5. Buddenbrooks, Thomas Mann, and north German social class: an application of literary anthropology Vincent O. Erickson	95
6. Ethnic culture texts as narration Irene Portis-Winner	127
7. Myth and Brazilian literature Regina Zilberman	141
8. The recovered fragments: archeological and anthropological perspectives in Edith Wharton’s The age of innocence Katie Trumpener and James M. Nyce	161
Part III. Literary Anthropology of Three Rural Worlds
9. The Bible and the Hungarian peasant tradition Annamária Lammel and Ilona Nagy	173
10. The social construction of past, present and future in the written and oral texts of the Old Order Amish: an ethnosemiotic approach to social belief Werner Enninger	195
11. Transylvanian people and Transylvanian literature: an attempt at the literary-anthropological analysis of Tamási Áron’s, Pavel Dan’s and Erwin Wittstock’s Short Stories Gyula Dávid	257
Part IV. Two Genre Approaches to Literary Anthropology
12. Avant-garde autobiography: deconstructing the modernist habitat William Boelhower	273
13. The anthropology in/of fiction: novels about voyages Francesco Loriggio	305
14. Symposium on Literary Anthropology — transcript of the closing discussion	327
List of contributors	339
Name index	343
Subject index	351

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Nünning, Ansgar

2013. In Metzler Lexikon Literatur- und Kulturtheorie, ► pp. 431 ff.

Payrató, Lluís

2003. In Handbook of Pragmatics, ► pp. 1 ff.

Reed, Adam

2018. Literature and Reading. Annual Review of Anthropology 47:1 ► pp. 33 ff.

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Subjects

Linguistics

Anthropological Linguistics

Literature & Literary Studies

Semiotics

BIC Subject: DSB – Literary studies: general

BISAC Subject: LIT000000 – LITERARY CRITICISM / General

U.S. Library of Congress Control Number: 87021820