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1 Online-Ressource (522 p.)
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Issued also in print
ISBN:
9780520966345
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Symposium of the Whole traces a discourse on poetry and culture that has profoundly influenced the art of our time, with precedents going back two centuries and more. Beginning with a reassertion of the complexity of poetry among peoples long labeled "primitive" and "savage," many recent poets have sought to base a new poetics over the fullest range of human cultures. The attempt to define an ethnopoetics has been significantly connected with the most experimental and future-directed side of Romantic and modern poetry, both in the Western world and, increasingly, outside it. As a visionary poetics and as a politics, this complex redefinition of cultural and intellectual values has involved a rarely acknowledged collaboration between poets and scholars, who together have challenged the narrow view of literature that has excluded so many traditions. In this gathering, the Rothenbergs follow the idea of an ethnopoetics from predecessors such as Vico, Blake, Thoreau, and Tzara to more recent essays and manifestos by poets and social thinkers such as Olson, Eliade, Snyder, Turner, and Baraka. The themes range widely, from the divergence of oral and written cultures to the shaman as proto-poet and the reemergence of suppressed and rejected forms and images: the goddess, the trickster, and the "human universe." The book's three ethnographic sections demonstrate how various poetries are structured and composed, how they reflect meaning and worldview, and how they are performed in cultures where all art may be thought of as art-in-motion. Among the poetries discussed are the language of magic; West African drum language and poetry; the Huichol Indian language of reversals; chance operations in African divination poetry; picture-writings and action-writings from Australia and Africa; and American Indian sacred-clown dramas and traditional trickster narratives. The cumulative effect is a new reading of the poetic past and present-in the editors' words, "a changed paradigm of what poetry was or now could come to be."
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Symposium of the Whole
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Frontmatter
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CONTENTS
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ONE. Preliminary Moves
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Magic Words
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The Age of the Gods and the Origins of Language
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From a Correspondence on Ossian and the Songs of Ancient Peoples
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From The Marriage of Heaven & Hell
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In Wildness is the preservation of the World
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The Rise of Bourgeois Rule and the Origin of World Literature
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From "Mauvais Sang" [Bad Blood]
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On Ritual and Theater
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From The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry
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A Note on Negro Poetry/Oceanian Art
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Reality at White Heat
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Paideuma
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The Value of Leo Frobenius
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The Duende
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On Negritude
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The White Goddess
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From Tristes Tropiques
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The Epilogue to Shamanism
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Human Universe
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Plato and the Definition of the Primitive
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Poetry and the Primitive: Notes on Poetry as an Ecological Survival Technique
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TWO. Workings
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The Meaning of Meaningless Words and the Coefficient of Weirdness
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Born Tying Knots
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How the Names are Changed on the Peyote Journey
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Speech and Image: An African Tradition of the Surreal
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Koyukon Riddle-Poems
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Izibongo: Zulu Praise-Poems
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Drum Language and Literature
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Guruwari Designs
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The Written Face
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The Divination Poetry of Ifa
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First Person Voice in Ainu Epic
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Songs and the Song
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Some Ewe Poets
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THREE. Meanings
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The Meaning of Everyday Objects
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The Sacred Hoop: A Contemporary Indian Perspective on American Indian Literature
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The Mushrooms of Language
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An American Indian Model of the Universe
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The Fertilizing Word
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The Dreaming
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On the Psychology of the Trickster Figure
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God the Father/God the Mother
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Return to Wirikuta: Ritual Reversal and Symbolic Continuity in the Huichol Peyote Hunt
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The Return of the Symbol
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FOUR. Doings
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From "On the Balinese Theater"
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The Aesthetics of the Sounding of the Text
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From "Shamanistic Theater: Origins and Evolution"
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The Sacred Clown
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From The Sorrow of the Lonely and the Burning of the Dancers
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Nsibidi/Action Writing
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Poetry without Sound
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Kabbalistic Ritual and the Bride of God
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From Ritual to Theatre and Back: The Structure/Process of the Efficacy-Entertainment Dyad
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FIVE. Contemporary Moves
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From "Rites of Participation"
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A Review of "Ethnopoetics"
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Some North Pacific Coast Poems: A Problem in Anthropological Philology
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"Tell It Like It's Right in Front of You"
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Total Translation: An Experiment in the Presentation of American Indian Poetry
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The Tenth Horse Song of Frank Mitchell
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Song/Poetry and Language- Expression and Perception
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Fragments from the Prayers Made on Behalf of Nathaniel Tam by the Tzutujil-Maya Priest Nicolas Chiviliu Tacaxoy, Santiago Atitlan, Guatemala, 1953, 1959
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The Man Made of Words
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Expressive Language
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From "The Incredible Survival of Coyote"
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Coyote Poems
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The Birth of Loba
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The hinges of civilization to be put back on the door
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The Preface to Hades in Manganese
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Talking to Discover
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From "DiaLogos: Between the Written and the Oral in Contemporary Poetry"
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Writing in the Imagination of an Oral Poet
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The Death of Sedna
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Bibliography
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Acknowledgments
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Issued also in print
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In English
Additional Edition:
9780520293113
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als print 9780520293113
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1525/9780520966345
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