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Showcases the methodology and theory of ethnopoetics. Focusing on the rich Native storytelling traditions of the Pacific Northwest, this work investigates what particular stylistic and linguistic devices and patterns in oral tales reveal about rhythm and order in the cultures creating them.

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"The culmination of the most important work in recent decades on the poetics of Native American oral traditions."—World Literature Today
"A gem that should be fundamental required reading for every aspiring and practicing folklorist."—Journal of American Folklore
"Readers will find in this book an unusual wedding of passion and precision. . . . Well-written, thoughtfully constructed, edited for consistency and adorned with helpful notes on Northwest Coast ethnology and Chinookan orthography."—American Indian Culture and Research Journal

In vain I tried to tell you

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      Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 01/06/2004
      ISBN13: 9780803273436, 978-0803273436
      ISBN10: 0803273436
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Showcases the methodology and theory of ethnopoetics. Focusing on the rich Native storytelling traditions of the Pacific Northwest, this work investigates what particular stylistic and linguistic devices and patterns in oral tales reveal about rhythm and order in the cultures creating them.

      Trade Review
      "The culmination of the most important work in recent decades on the poetics of Native American oral traditions."—World Literature Today
      "A gem that should be fundamental required reading for every aspiring and practicing folklorist."—Journal of American Folklore
      "Readers will find in this book an unusual wedding of passion and precision. . . . Well-written, thoughtfully constructed, edited for consistency and adorned with helpful notes on Northwest Coast ethnology and Chinookan orthography."—American Indian Culture and Research Journal

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