Ruth Finneganâ s Oral Literature in Africa was first published in 1970, and since then has been widely praised as one of the most important books in its field. Based on years of fieldwork, the study ...traces the history of storytelling across the continent of Africa. This revised edition makes Finneganâ s ground-breaking research available to the next generation of scholars. It includes a new introduction, additional images and an updated bibliography, as well as its original chapters on poetry, prose, "drum language" and drama, and an overview of the social, linguistic and historical background of oral literature in Africa. Oral Literature in Africa has been accessed by hundreds of readers in over 60 different countries, including Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda and numerous other African countries. The digital editions of this book are free to download thanks to the generous support of interested readers and organisations, who made donations using the crowd-funding website Unglue.it. Oral Literature in Africa is part of our World Oral Literature Series in conjunction with the World Oral Literature Project.
Intertextuality, which is defined as the inclusion of one text in another text, is intertwined with visual arts by interacting with cinema-literature, literature- music, sculpture-painting, etc., ...within the developments in the process Intersemiotics concept has occurred. However, according to the theory of intertextuality, since everything is considered as a text, it constitutes the scope of our subject. A Noise In The Night The relationship between the work, which was adapted from the novel of the same name and turned into a film format, is analyzed like a text and the intertextuality of palempsest, adaptation, montage, narrative change, allusion, intra-narrative, side- filminess/side-textuality and Linearity--Tubularity which are the products of folklore within its methods such as myth and ritual It has been examined under the main headings. These products, which contain the traditional codes of the society; It has also been used as an important tool in explaining the structure of the community to be examined in folklore studies and the world of thought. Therefore, he builds his daily life almost entirely on rituals and myths; It has been more functional to examine the Alevi belief system, which is also the main subject of the novel and the movie, under these headings. The creation of folk knowledge products taken from the tradition in the literary field and then the construction of their transformation in the literary field in the context of cinema required a two-dimensional perspective. The rich cultural infrastructure of the Alevi belief system, which can be examined with the methods of many different disciplines, has opened the door to interdisciplinary methods for studies in the context of this belief system, and the situation of both tradition and the current has been compared while dealing with the recreation of Alevism by adapting it to cinema and novels. The rituals and myths of the Alevi faith in the novel and the film are considered as a text and evaluated within the framework of the relationship of intertextuality in semiotic and semantic dimensions. Finally, although they are seen as external elements in films and novels, the indicators on book covers, epigraphs and movie posters, which give important clues to the reader and the audience, are explained within the framework of the Alevi belief system within the framework of the side- filming/side-textuality method. Keywords: Intertextuality, Intersemiotics, Alevism, Rituals, Myths. Bir metnin baska bir metnin bunyesinde yer almasi olarak tanimlanan metinlerarasilik; surec icerisindeki gelismeler dahilinde sinema-edebiyat, yazin-muzik, heykel-resim gibi turler arasi etkilesimler sayesinde gorsel sanatlarla ic ice gectiginden dolayi gostergel/erarasilik kavrami meydana gelmistir. Ancak metinlerarasilik kuramina gore her sey bir metin olarak ele alindigindan konumuzun kapsamini olusturan Bir Ses Boler Geceyi romanindan ayni isimle uyarlanarak film formatina donusturulen yapit arasindaki iliski de bir metin gibi cozumlenip metinlerarasiligin palempsest, uyarlama, montaj, oykusel degisim, anistirma, ic-anlati, yan-filmselliklyan- metinsellik ve cizgisellik- tablosallik gibi yontemleri dahilinde halk biliminin urunleri olan mit ve rituel ana basliklarinda incelenmistir. Toplumun geleneksel kodlarini iceresinde bulunduran bu urunler; halk bilimsel calismalarda da incelenecek toplulugun yapisini, dusunce dunyasini aciklamada onemli bir arac olarak kullanilmistir. Dolayisiyla gundelik yasamini neredeyse bastan sona ritueller ve mitler uzerine kuran; roman ve filmin de ana konusunu olusturan Alevi inanc sistemini bu basliklarda incelemek daha islevsel olmustur. Gelenekten alinan halk bilgisi urunlerinin once edebi alanda yaratimi, ardindan da edebi alandaki donusumunun sinema baglamindaki insasi iki boyutlu bir bakis acisini gerektirmistir. Alevi inanc sisteminin bircok farkli disiplinin yontemleriyle incelenebilecek zengin kulturel alt yapisi, bu inanc sistemi baglamindaki calismalara disiplinler arasi yontemlerin kapisini aralamis, Aleviligin sinema ve romana uyarlanarak yeniden yaratimini ele alirken hem gelenegin hem de guncelin durumu karsilastirilmistir. Romanin ve filmin icerisinde yer verilen Alevi inancina dair ritueller ve mitler, bir metin gibi ele alinarak gostergebilimsel ve anlambilimsel boyutlarda metinlerarasilik iliskisi catisinda degerlendirilmistir. Son olarak da film ve romanlarda dis unsur olarak gorulse de okuyucuya ve izleyiciye onemli ipuclari veren kitap kapaklari, epigraf ve film afislerindeki gostergeler Alevi inanc sistemi cercevesinde yan-filmsellik/yan-metinsellik yontemi dahilinde aciklanmistir. Anahtar Kelimeler: Metinlerarasilik, Gostergelerarasilik, Alevilik, Ritueller, Mitler. Der Begriff der Intertextualitat, welcher die Prasenz eines Textes in einem anderen bezeichnet, ist im Laufe der Zeit angesichts der Verwobenheit von Text und bildenden Kunsten, die sich in wechselseitigen Beziehungen von etwa Film und Literatur, Schreiben und Musik oder Bildhauerei und Malerei feststellen lasst, um jenen der Intersemiotik erweitert worden. Da jedoch nach der Theorie der Intertextualitat alles als Text betrachtet wird, wird die Beziehung zwischen dem Roman Bir Ses Boler Geceyi (,,Eine Stimme durchdringt die Nacht ") und der gleichnamigen filmischen Adaption in diesem Artikel als Text analysiert und entlang von Begriffen wie Palimpsest, Adaption, Montage, narrativer Wandel, Anspielung, Binnenerzahlung, Parafilmizitat/Paratextualitat und Linearitat/ Tabularitat aus volkskundlicher Perspektive unter den Hauptgesichtspunkten Mythos und Ritual untersucht. Auf diese Kulturprodukte, in denen die traditionellen Codes einer Gesellschaft enthalten sind, wird in volkskundlichen Studien oft als wichtiges Mittel zur Erklarung der Struktur und der Gedankenwelt von Gemeinschaften zuruckgegriffen. Da die Alltagspraxis des alevitischen Glaubenssystems, das den Hauptgegenstand des hier behandelten Romans und Films darstellt, fast ausschliesslich auf Ritualen und Mythen aufbaut, eignen sich letztere besonders gut als Schlusselkategorien fur diese Studie. Will man untersuchen, wie zunachst im Bereich der Literatur folkloristische Produkte aus der Tradition geschaffen und diese literarischen Abwandlungen der Tradition anschliessend filmisch rekonstruiert werden, erfordert dies eine zweidimensionale Perspektive. Der reiche kulturelle Unterbau des alevitischen Glaubenssystems kann mithilfe der Methoden verschiedener Disziplinen untersucht werden, was auch die Verwendung interdisziplinarer Ansatze in Studien in diesem Gebiet begunstigt hat. Im Rahmen der Erorterung der Neuerfindung des Alevitentums, die in dem behandelten Roman und Film stattfindet, werden auch Tradition und Gegenwart verglichen. Die alevitischen Rituale und Mythen, die sowohl im Roman als auch im Film enthalten sind, werden als Text behandelt und im Rahmen der Intertextualitat aus semiotischer und semantischer Sicht betrachtet. Wahrend Zeichen, die sich auf Buchdeckeln, in Inschriften und auf Filmplakaten finden, haufig als externe Elemente von Filmen und Romanen gesehen werden, werden sie hier im Kontext des alevitischen Glaubenssystems unter dem Aspekt der Parafilmizitat/Paratextualitat untersucht, da auch sie den Lesern und Zuschauern wichtige Hinweise liefern. Schlusselworter: Intertextualitat, Intersemiotik, Alevitentum, Rituale, Mythen.
Sand stories from Central Australia are a traditional form of Aboriginal women's verbal art that incorporates speech, song, sign, gesture and drawing. Small leaves and other objects may be used to ...represent story characters. This detailed study of Arandic sand stories takes a multimodal approach to the analysis of the stories and shows how the expressive elements used in the stories are orchestrated together. This richly illustrated volume is essential reading for anyone interested in language and communication. It adds to the growing recognition that language encompasses much more than speech alone, and shows how important it is to consider the different semiotic resources a culture brings to its communicative tasks as an integrated whole rather than in isolation.
How the Wise Men Got to Chelmis the first in-depth study of Chelm literature and its relationship to its literary precursors.
When God created the world, so it is said, he sent out an angel with a ...bag of foolish souls with instructions to distribute them equally all over the world-one fool per town. But the angel's bag broke and all the souls spilled out onto the same spot. They built a settlement where they landed: the town is known as Chelm.
The collected tales of these fools, or "wise men," of Chelm constitute the best-known folktale tradition of the Jews of eastern Europe. This tradition includes a sprawling repertoire of stories about the alleged intellectual limitations of the members of this old and important Jewish community. Chelm did not make its debut in the role of the foolishshtetlpar excellence until late in the nineteenth century. Since then, however, the town has led a double life-as a real city in eastern Poland and as an imaginary place onto which questions of Jewish identity, community, and history have been projected.By placing literary Chelm and its "foolish" antecedents in a broader historical context, it shows how they have functioned for over three hundred years as models of society, somewhere between utopia and dystopia. These imaginary foolish towns have enabled writers both to entertain and highlight a variety of societal problems, a function that literary Chelm continues to fulfill in Jewish literature to this day.
In this article, the colorful folklore heritage of the Uzbek people, the diversity of their ethnic composition and the path of historical development are discussed. Keywords: folklore, civilization, ...creativity, storyteller, storyteller, singer, storyteller.