Reading the fire essays in the traditional Indian literatures of the Far West /
| Main Author: | Ramsey, Jarold, 1937- |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Lincoln :
University of Nebraska Press,
[1983]
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| Physical Description: |
xxi, 250 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Subjects: |
| Item Description: |
Includes index. Bibliography: pages [233]-243. 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. 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. |
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| Physical Description: |
xxi, 250 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: |
Bibliography: pages [233]-243. |
| ISBN: |
0803238649 |