Now I Know Only So Far: Essays in Ethnopoetics

by Dell Hymes and Dell H. Hymes

Book Overview

In Now I Know Only So Far, sociolinguist and ethnopoetic scholar Dell Hymes examines the power and significance of Native North American literatures and how they can best be approached and appreciated. Such narratives, Hymes argues, are ways of making sense of the world. To truly comprehend the importance and durability of these narratives, one must investigate the ways of thinking expressed in these texts--the cultural sensibilities also deeply...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803273355
• ISBN13: 9780803273351
• Release Date: September 2003
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 512 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 10.6"