The Spoken Word and the Work of Interpretation

by Dennis Tedlock

Book Overview

Dennis Tedlock presents startling new methods for transcribing, translating, and interpreting oral performance that carry wide implications for all areas of the spoken arts. Moreover, he reveals how the categories and concepts of poetics and hermeneutics based in Western literary traditions cannot be carried over in their entirety to the spoken arts of other cultures but require extensive reevaluation.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081221143X
• ISBN13: 9780812211436
• Release Date: June 1983
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 8.7"