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Fabricated World
John D. LeRoy
其他書名
An Interpretation of Kewa Tales
出版University of British Columbia Press, 1985
主題Fiction / Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & MythologySocial Science / Anthropology / GeneralSocial Science / Anthropology / Cultural & SocialSocial Science / Anthropology / PhysicalSocial Science / Folklore & MythologySocial Science / Sociology / General
ISBN07748021709780774802178
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=urHfAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋The meaning and mechanics of myth have been of constant concern inscholarship. Tales and legends challenge us to find a sense and purposeconcealed in their apparent nonsense and that challenge is met in thiscompanion volume to Kewa Tales. Describing eighty tales, theauthor explains how they are fabricated from recurrent narrativesequences, logical structures, and aesthetic metaphors. To do so, hedraws on the formalism of Propp, the structuralism of Levi-Strauss, andwritings on poetics and metaphor. But, holding tales to be mirrors ormodels for daily life, he also demonstrates an intimate connectionbetween narrative structure and ethnographic settings.