"In vain I tried to tell you" : essays in Native American ethnopoetics / Dell Hymes ; with a new preface by the author.

• Some North Pacific Coast poems : a problem in anthropological philology postscript -- How to talk like a bear in Takelma -- Breakthrough into performance -- Louis Simpson's "The deserted boy" postscripts -- Verse analysis of a Wasco text : Hiram Smith's "At'unaqa" -- Breakthrough into performance revisited -- Myth and tale titles of the lower Chinook postscript -- The "wife" who "goes out" like a man : reinterpretation of a Clackamas Chinook myth postscripts -- Discovering oral performance and measure verse in American Indian narrative -- Reading Clackamas texts.

Ämnesord

Indians of North America  -- Northwest, Pacific -- Poetry -- History and criticism. (LCSH)

Indians of North America  -- Northwest, Pacific -- Folklore. (LCSH)

Klassifikation

PM483.5 (LCC)

811.009/897 (DDC)

Gxq.07 (kssb/7)

Gxq.03 (kssb/7)