Research Catalog

Title

Speaking in other voices : an ethnography of Walloon puppet theaters / Joan Gross.

Author

Gross, Joan.

Publication

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, ©2001.

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Details

Description

xxviii, 337 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Pragmatics & beyond, 0922-842X ; new ser. 91

Uniform Title

Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser. 91.

Subject

• Puppet theater > Belgium > Wallonia > History
• Puppet theater > Belgium > Liège > History
• Puppet plays, French > Belgium > Wallonia > History and criticism
• Puppet plays, French
• Puppet theater
• Figurentheater
• Geschichte
• Poppenspel
• Frans
• Discourse analysis
• Théâtre de marionnettes en éducation > Belgique
• Théâtre de marionnettes (genre littéraire) > Belgique
• Belgium > Liège
• Belgium > Wallonia
• Wallonien

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [297]-315) and index.

Contents

1. Introduction -- 2. Heteroglossia in Liege. 2.1. Language Change, Language Heterogeneity. 2.2. Linguistic Heterogeneity in Liege Prior to the Belgian State. 2.3. Metalinguistic Discourses in Belgium. 2.4. Contemporary Spoken Varieties along the French/Walloon Continuum. 2.5. Social Factors Triggering the Use of Walloon. 2.6. The Maintenance of Walloon in Verbal Art -- 3. Class and Culture in 19th century Liege and the Rise of the Puppet Theater. 3.1. Work and Leisure: Setting the Scene. 3.2. Early Accounts of Puppetry. 3.3. The Changing Material Conditions. 3.4. Bourgeois Discovery of the Puppet Theater. 3.5. Folklore and Nation -- 4. Manipulations and Transformations. 4.1. Cultural Discourses. 4.2. Work and Leisure.

ISBN

• 1588110540
• 9781588110541
• 902725110X
• 9789027251107

LCCN

2001035021

OCLC

• ocm46671242
• 46671242
• SCSB-1246402

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library