Verbal Art As Performance [Paperback]

Richard Bauman (Author)

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Paperback: 150 pages
Publisher: Waveland Pr Inc; Reprint edition (January 1984)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0881330485
ISBN-13: 978-0881330489
Product Dimensions: 20.8 x 13.7 x 0.8 cm
Shipping Weight: 181 g
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #2,353,712 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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This highly insightful and stimulating collection of relevant studies on verbal performance (artistic action and event), seen from the point of view of sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, folklore studies and semiotics, represents a clear assembly of perspective and methodology. The initial essay is succinct and suggestive, and the scope of the theory is exemplified by four supplementary essays. The book provides readers of folklore, anthropology, linguistics, or any field interested in performance and its verbal dimensions with excellent background material for a contrastive approach to narrative, ritual, and ceremonial forms of verbal behavior in different sociocultural settings.

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Consider this title of related interest also available from Waveland Press: Bruner, Text, Play, and Story: The Construction and Reconstruction of Self and Society (ISBN 0881333654).

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We will be concerned in this work to develop a conception of verbal art as performance, based upon an understanding of performance as a mode of speaking. Read the first page

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5.0 out of 5 stars Folklore as performance, Jun 11 2011

By Christopher R. Travers "Einhverfr" - Published on Amazon.com

This review is from: Verbal Art As Performance (Paperback)

This short paperback discusses various aspects of verbal art, particularly in the folklore and folktale context, as performance rather than simply as repository of lore. The first essay lays out a basic theory as well as some aspects of performance theory as applied to performances of folktales. The supplemental essays expand on these points and provide examples in action.

Although the book is short, it is also dense and rich, providing great opportunities to rethink how we address traditional storytelling. Great book, and if it is of interest, I'd also recommend: The Singer of Tales

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