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Reading the fire : essays in the traditional Indian literatures of the Far West
- Title
- Reading the fire : essays in the traditional Indian literatures of the Far West / Jarold Ramsey.
- Author
- Ramsey, Jarold, 1937-
- Publication
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c1983.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | HBP 83-2529 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- xxi, 250 p.; 23 cm.
- Subject
- Indian literature > West (U.S.) > History and criticism
- Note
- Includes index.
- Bibliography (note)
- Bibliography: p. [233]-243.
- Contents
- Creations and origins -- Coyote and friends, an experiment in interpretive bricolage -- From mythic to fictive in a Nez Perce Orpheus myth -- "The hunter who had an elk for a guardian spirit," and the ecological imagination -- The wife who goes out like a man, comes back as a hero, the art of two Oregon Indian narratives -- Uncursing the misbegotten in a Tillamook incest myth -- Simon Fraser's canoe; or, Capsizing into myth -- Fish-hawk and other heroes -- Retroactive prophecy in western Indian narratives -- The Bible in western Indian mythology -- Tradition and individual talents in modern Indian writing.
- Call Number
- HBP 83-2529
- ISBN
- 0803238649
- LCCN
- 82021775
- OCLC
- 8975061
- NYPG83-B52068
- Author
- Ramsey, Jarold, 1937-
- Title
- Reading the fire : essays in the traditional Indian literatures of the Far West / Jarold Ramsey.
- Imprint
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c1983.
- Bibliography
- Bibliography: p. [233]-243.
- Research Call Number
- HBP 83-2529