How to Read a Folktale : The Ibonia Epic from Madagascar
How to Read a FoIktale offers the first English translation of Ibonia, a spellbinding tale of old Madagascar. Much of its plot sounds familiar: a powerful royal hero attempts to rescue his betrothed from an evil adversary and, after a séries of tests and duels, he and his lover are joyfully united w...
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| Format: | Livre numérique |
| Idioma: | Anglais |
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Cambridge :
Open Book Publishers
2015.
Marseille : OpenEdition |
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| Accés en línia: | Ressource accessible en libre accès Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM ; Accès complet au document dans sa version HTML. Pas d'accès aux autres formats (PDF, Epub). |
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Description d'après la consultation, 2016-03-02 Titre provenant de la page de titre du document électronique La pagination de l'édition imprimée correspondante est de : 153 pages OpenEdition Books (freemium) |
| Autres localisations: | Voir dans le Sudoc |
| Edition sous un autre format: | • How to Read a Folktale, Texte imprimé, Cambridge, Open Book Publishers, 2013 |
| Sumari: | How to Read a FoIktale offers the first English translation of Ibonia, a spellbinding tale of old Madagascar. Much of its plot sounds familiar: a powerful royal hero attempts to rescue his betrothed from an evil adversary and, after a séries of tests and duels, he and his lover are joyfully united with a marriage that affirms the royal lineage. These fairytale elements link Ibonia with European folktales, but the taie is still very much a product of Madagascar. It contains African-style praise poetry for the hero; it presents Indonesian-style riddles and poems; and it inflates the form of folktale into epic proportions. Recorded when the Malagasy people were experiencing European contact for the first time, Ibonia proclaims the power of the ancestors against the foreigner. Through Ibonia, Lee Haring expertly helps readers to understand the very nature of folktales. His définitive translation, originally published in 1994, has now been fully revised to emphasize its poetic qualities, while his new introduction and detailed notes give insight into the fascinating imagination and symbols of the Malagasy. Haring's research connects this exotic narrative with fundamental questions not only of anthropology but also of literary criticism |
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| Descripció de l’ítem: | Description d'après la consultation, 2016-03-02 Titre provenant de la page de titre du document électronique La pagination de l'édition imprimée correspondante est de : 153 pages OpenEdition Books (freemium) |
| Format: | Navigateur Web |
| Bibliografia: | Bibliographie. Index |
| ISBN: | 9782821854109 |
| Accés: | L'accès complet au document est ouvert à tous dans sa version HTML. L'accès aux autres formats (PDF, Epub) est réservé aux usagers des établissements qui en ont fait l'acquisition |