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• catalog abstract ""This is a book about poetry: about its sacred underpinnings, its broad presence in everyday life, and its necessity to the human community. Reading the Voice examines poetry's abiding importance among Native Americans from ancient times to the present. It also seeks connections between an ancient tribal way of making and diffusing poetry and more recent print-oriented or electronic means." "Drawing on years of experience with Seneca and Navajo singers and storytellers, Paul Zolbrod offers an introductory framework for appreciating what can be called America's first literature and for reevaluating the Western literary heritage. He states, "I consider this work a tentative first step in reconciling mainstream America with the deep poetic roots of an unwritten aboriginal past, and perhaps even with the deeper European roots of its own poetic traditions." To do so effectively, however, readers must first reexamine assumptions about what poetry and literature really are." "Those who come to Native American "literature" in print must do so conscious of the dynamic sounds of speech and song by "reading the voice," instead of merely looking at a silent sheet of paper full of alphabetical symbols. By doing otherwise we stand to miss much that is essential to the verbal art of indigenous peoples whom print cultures approach from an alien perspective."--BOOK JACKET.".
• catalog contributor b7907304.
• catalog created "c1995.".
• catalog date "1995".
• catalog date "c1995.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c1995.".
• catalog description ""This is a book about poetry: about its sacred underpinnings, its broad presence in everyday life, and its necessity to the human community. Reading the Voice examines poetry's abiding importance among Native Americans from ancient times to the present. It also seeks connections between an ancient tribal way of making and diffusing poetry and more recent print-oriented or electronic means." "Drawing on years of experience with Seneca and Navajo singers and storytellers, Paul Zolbrod offers an introductory framework for appreciating what can be called America's first literature and for reevaluating the Western literary heritage. He states, "I consider this work a tentative first step in reconciling mainstream America with the deep poetic roots of an unwritten aboriginal past, and perhaps even with the deeper European roots of its own poetic traditions." To do so effectively, however, readers must first reexamine assumptions about what poetry and literature really are." "Those who come to Native American "literature" in print must do so conscious of the dynamic sounds of speech and song by "reading the voice," instead of merely looking at a silent sheet of paper full of alphabetical symbols. By doing otherwise we stand to miss much that is essential to the verbal art of indigenous peoples whom print cultures approach from an alien perspective."--BOOK JACKET.".
• catalog description "1. Introduction : A working hypothesis ; Poetry and related terms ; Poetry and the sacred -- 2. Sacred texts and Iroquois culture: a case study : The story of creation ; The thank-you prayer ; The Dekanawida myth ; The condolence ritual ; Poetry as a cultural institution -- 3. Classifying poetic texts: voice : Two kinds of voice ; The lyric voice in print ; The colloquial voice and the printed page -- 4. Classifying poetic texts: mode : The dramatic mode ; The narrative mode -- 5. Toward a taxonomy of texts.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 139-146).".
• catalog extent "xi, 146 p. :".
• catalog hasFormat "Reading the voice.".
• catalog identifier "0874804574 (alk. paper)".
• catalog isFormatOf "Reading the voice.".
• catalog issued "1995".
• catalog issued "c1995.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press,".
• catalog relation "Reading the voice.".
• catalog spatial "North America".
• catalog spatial "North America.".
• catalog subject "398.2/08997 20".
• catalog subject "Indian poetry North America History and criticism.".
• catalog subject "Oral tradition North America History and criticism.".
• catalog subject "Oral tradition North America.".
• catalog subject "PM168 .Z65 1995".
• catalog tableOfContents "1. Introduction : A working hypothesis ; Poetry and related terms ; Poetry and the sacred -- 2. Sacred texts and Iroquois culture: a case study : The story of creation ; The thank-you prayer ; The Dekanawida myth ; The condolence ritual ; Poetry as a cultural institution -- 3. Classifying poetic texts: voice : Two kinds of voice ; The lyric voice in print ; The colloquial voice and the printed page -- 4. Classifying poetic texts: mode : The dramatic mode ; The narrative mode -- 5. Toward a taxonomy of texts.".
• catalog title "Reading the voice : Native American oral poetry on the page / Paul G. Zolbrod.".
• catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
• catalog type "text".