A Story as Sharp as a Knife The Classical Haida Mythtellers and Their World
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Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
01.04.2011
Abbildungen
mit Illustrationen
Verlag
Ingram Publishers ServicesSeitenzahl
544
Maße (L/B/H)
21,6/14,1/3,8 cm
Gewicht
702 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-1-55365-839-9
The linguist and ethnographer John Swanton took dictation from the last great Haida-speaking storytellers, poets and historians from the fall of 1900 through the summer of 1901. His Haida hosts and colleagues had been raised in a wholly oral world where the mythic and the personal interpenetrate completely. They joined forces with their visitor, consciously creating a great treasury of Haida oral literature in written form. Poet and linguist Robert Bringhurst has worked for many years with these century-old manuscripts, which have waited until now for the broad recognition they deserve.
Bringhurst brings these works to life in the English language and sets them in a context just as rich as the stories themselves--one that reaches out to dozens of Native American oral literatures, and to mythtelling traditions around the globe.
The world of classical Haida literature is a world as deep as the ocean, as close as the heart and as elusive as the Raven, whose unrepentant laugh persists within it all. This is a tradition brimming with profundity, hilariy and love. It belongs where Bringhurst sees it: among the great traditions of the world.
Bringhurst, an acclaimed typographer and book designer, will be redesigning this edition in a beautiful new package.
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