Parallel worlds : genre, discourse, and poetics in contemporary, colonial, and classic period Maya literature / edited by Kerry M. Hull and Michael D. Carrasco.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Hull, Kerry M. (Editor), Carrasco, Michael (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Boulder : University Press of Colorado, ©2012.
Edition:	4th ed.
Subjects:	Maya literature > History and criticism. Maya poetry > History and criticism. LITERARY CRITICISM > Native American. SOCIAL SCIENCE > General. Maya literature Maya poetry Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:

Cover; Contents; Illustrations; Introduction; Part 1: Finding Continuities in Maya Poetics and Literature; 1. The Narrative Structure of Chol Folktales; Part 2: Establishing Traditions; 2. Syntactic Inversion (Hyperbaton) as a Literary Device in Maya Hieroglyphic Texts; 3. Poetic Tenacity; 4. The History, Rhetoric, and Poetics of Three Palenque Narratives; 5. Understanding Discourse; 6. Drawing and Designing with Words; 7. Narrative Structure and the Drum Major Headdress; Part 3: From Glyphs to Letters; 8. Creation Narratives in the Postclassic Maya Codices.
9. Some Historical Continuities in Lowland Maya Magical Speech Genres10. Appropriating Sacred Speech; 11. Poetics in the Popol Wuj; 12. The Use of Chiasmus by the Ancient K'iche' Maya; Part 4: Keepers of Tradition; 13. Before Poetry, the Words; 14. Humor through Yucatec Mayan Stories; 15. A Comparison of Narrative Style in Mopan and Itzaj Mayan; 16. The Lights Dim but Don't Go Out on the Stars of Yucatec Maya Oral Literature; 17. To Speak the Words of Colonial Tzotzil; Index.

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