ISBN: 9780295977874 - reading the fire: the traditional indian literatures of america (6 Ergebnisse)

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Zustand: Very Good. Revised and Expanded ed. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Zustand: New. Engages Native American tales and legends as literary art and part of our collective imaginative heritage. Moves from origin and trickster narratives and Indian ceremonial texts into interpretations of stories from the Nez Perce, Clackamas Chinook, Coos, Wasco, and Tillamook repertories, concluding Editor(s): Ramsey, Jarold. Num Pages: 352 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KB; 2JN; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5830 x 3895 x 21. Weight in Grams: 515. . 1999. paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.…

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. revised expanded su edition. 332 pages. 9.25x6.00x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Reading the Fire engages America's 'first literatures,' traditional Native American tales and legends, as literary art and part of our collective imaginative heritage. This revised edition of a book first published to critical acclaim in 1983 includes four new essays.Drawing on ethnographic data and regional folklore, Jarold Ramsey moves from origin and trickster narratives and Indian ceremonial texts, into interpretations of stories from the Nez Perce, Clackamas Chinook, Coos, Wasco, and Tillamook repertories, concluding with a set of essays on the neglected subject of Native literary responses to contact with Euroamericans. In his finely worked, erudite analyses, he mediates between an author-centered, print-based narrative tradition and one that is oral, anonymous, and tribal, adducing parallels between Native texts and works by Shakespeare, Yeats, Beckett, and Faulkner.…

Zustand: New. Engages Native American tales and legends as literary art and part of our collective imaginative heritage. Moves from origin and trickster narratives and Indian ceremonial texts into interpretations of stories from the Nez Perce, Clackamas Chinook, Coos, W.