Now I Know Only So Far: Essays in EthnopoeticsIn Now I Know Only So Far, sociolinguist and ethnopoetic scholar Dell Hymes examines the power and significance of Native North American literatures and how they can best be approached and appreciated. Such narratives, Hymes argues, are ways of making sense of the world. To truly comprehend the importance and durability of these narratives, one must investigate the ways of thinking expressed in these texts?the cultural sensibilities also deeply affected by storytellers? particular experiences and mastery of form. ø Included here are seminal overviews and reflections on the history and potential of the field of ethnopoetics. Native North American stories from areas ranging from the Northwest Coast to the Southwest take center stage in this book, which features careful scrutiny of different realizations and tellings of the same story or related stories. Such narratives are illuminated through a series of verse analyses in which patterned relations of lines throw into relief differences in emphasis, shape, and interpretation. A final group of essays sheds light on the often misunderstood and always controversial role of editing and interpreting texts. Now I Know Only So Far provides penetrating discussions and absorbing insights into stories and worlds, both traditional and new. |
Contents
Gender in Focus | 81 |
Generative Form and Its Pragmatic Conditions | 95 |
Charles Cultees Salmons Myth as Twice Told | 121 |
Victoria Howards Coyote Made | 169 |
Louis Simpsons Deer and Coyote | 203 |
Rhetorical Analysis of a Hopi Coyote Story | 243 |
Eagles Daughter | 266 |
Editing Texts | 303 |
Robinson Jefferss Artistry of Line | 411 |
Appendix 1 Index of Narrators and Narratives by Chapter | 429 |
Appendix 2 Verse Analyses in Native American Languages | 435 |
Appendix 3 Verse Analyses in Other Languages | 439 |
Notes | 441 |
References | 473 |
Source Acknowledgments | 495 |
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References to this book
Cinderella in America: A Book of Folk and Fairy Tales William Bernard McCarthy No preview available - 2007 |