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- catalog abstract ""The "magic" of words is something many people refer to without qualification or, often, attention. In this pathbreaking collection, John Leavitt has assembled five essays that explore the places where magic and words most clearly intersect: in prophetic or inspired acts of speech and writing." "Based on rich ethnographic work in western and nonwestern cultures, the essays represent distinct approaches to the topic, from one person's account of her interactions with a possessing spirit to another's world-spanning statement on prophetic poetics. Each contributor challenges easy assumptions that poetic texts are crafted works, products of skill rather than inspiration, while prophetic speech and writing are best understood as spontaneous performance rather than formal art. The volume is rounded out with a thorough introduction and an afterword." "As a whole the collection aims to reorient the anthropological study of possession and oracular experiences toward an awareness of the word, and to draw the attention of literary critics to "inspired" poetry. It will appeal to a wide audience in not only anthropology and literature, but performance studies and comparative religion as well."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b10240389.
- catalog created "c1997.".
- catalog date "1997".
- catalog date "c1997.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1997.".
- catalog description ""The "magic" of words is something many people refer to without qualification or, often, attention. In this pathbreaking collection, John Leavitt has assembled five essays that explore the places where magic and words most clearly intersect: in prophetic or inspired acts of speech and writing." "Based on rich ethnographic work in western and nonwestern cultures, the essays represent distinct approaches to the topic, from one person's account of her interactions with a possessing spirit to another's world-spanning statement on prophetic poetics. Each contributor challenges easy assumptions that poetic texts are crafted works, products of skill rather than inspiration, while prophetic speech and writing are best understood as spontaneous performance rather than formal art. The volume is rounded out with a thorough introduction and an afterword." "As a whole the collection aims to reorient the anthropological study of possession and oracular experiences toward an awareness of the word, and to draw the attention of literary critics to "inspired" poetry. It will appeal to a wide audience in not only anthropology and literature, but performance studies and comparative religion as well."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "1. Poetics, prophetics, inspiration / John Leavitt -- 2. Time and the mother / Margaret Travick -- 3. The poetics of time in Mayan Divination / Dennis Tedlock -- 4. The poetry of Sakha (Siberian Yakut) Shamanism / Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer -- 5. The language of the Gods / John Leavitt --6. The Prophet Isaiah in Pushkin's "Prophet" / Paul Friedrich.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog extent "214 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Poetry and prophecy.".
- catalog identifier "0472106880 (cloth)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Poetry and prophecy.".
- catalog issued "1997".
- catalog issued "c1997.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press,".
- catalog relation "Poetry and prophecy.".
- catalog subject "809/.93353 21".
- catalog subject "PN1077 .P575 1997".
- catalog subject "Poetry History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Prophecy in literature.".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. Poetics, prophetics, inspiration / John Leavitt -- 2. Time and the mother / Margaret Travick -- 3. The poetics of time in Mayan Divination / Dennis Tedlock -- 4. The poetry of Sakha (Siberian Yakut) Shamanism / Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer -- 5. The language of the Gods / John Leavitt --6. The Prophet Isaiah in Pushkin's "Prophet" / Paul Friedrich.".
- catalog title "Poetry and prophecy : the anthropology of inspiration / edited by John Leavitt.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "text".