Dennis Tedlock presents startling new methods for transcribing, translating, and interpreting oral performance that carry wide implications for all areas of the spoken arts. Moreover, he reveals how the categories and concepts of poetics and hermeneutics based in Western literary traditions cannot be carried over in their entirety to the spoken arts of other cultures but require extensive reevaluation.
- ISBN10 0812205308
- ISBN13 9780812205305
- Publish Date 3 June 2011 (first published 29 May 1983)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University of Pennsylvania Press
- Format eBook
- Pages 376
- Language English