Ethnopoetics /
Ethnopoetics, as both a field of inquiry and a methodology, is best defined as resources for understanding and interpreting the verbal art of various languages and cultures. Emerging at the interdisciplinary convergence of such fields as anthropology, linguistics, comparative literature, and folklor...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London :
SAGE Publications Ltd.,
2020.
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| Series: | Narrative research.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | Ethnopoetics, as both a field of inquiry and a methodology, is best defined as resources for understanding and interpreting the verbal art of various languages and cultures. Emerging at the interdisciplinary convergence of such fields as anthropology, linguistics, comparative literature, and folklore, ethnopoetics first appeared as an academic and literary movement in the 1960s. Although anthropologists had developed terms for such fields of inquiry as ethnohistory, ethnogeography, and ethnobotany much earlier in the 20th century, American poet and translator Jerome Rothenberg first coined the term ethnopoetics and used it in a 1968 anthology of traditional and modern poetry titled Technicians of the Sacred: A Range of Poems from Africa, America, Asia, & Oceania as well as in the subtitle of the literary journal Alcheringa, which ... |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781529745566 152974556X 9781526421036 1526421038 |