Homo Narrans: The Poetics and Anthropology of Oral Literature
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Main Author: Niles, John D. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia, Pa University of Pennsylvania Press 1999
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Links:https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812202953
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Item Description:Biographical note: John D. Niles is Frederic G. Cassidy Professor of Humanities at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is author and editor of many books, including Beowulf: The Poem and Its Tradition and coeditor, with Allen J. Frantzen, of Anglo-Saxonism and the Construction of Social Identity
Main description: Homo Narrans explores how human beings shape their world through the stories they tell. Author John D. Niles ponders the nature of the storytelling impulse, the social function of narrative, and the role of individual talent in oral tradition
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (296 S.)
ISBN:9780812202953
DOI:10.9783/9780812202953