Talking Books: Ethnopoetics, Translation, Text

by Kenneth Mendoza

Study of problems of translating oral literature, illustrated by Pawnee examples.

The increasing academic interest in the wide field of ethnopoetics has led to the publication of numerous anthologies and related texts. Professor Mendoza's study reveals strikingly the fundamental problem arising from the manifold difficulties of translating oral poetry into a written literature. He argues that a true appreciation of the oldest, most universal...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 187975178X
• ISBN13: 9781879751781
• Release Date: September 1993
• Publisher: Camden House (NY)
• Length: 114 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"