The Spoken Word and the Work of Interpretation(English, Paperback, Tedlock Dennis)

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The Spoken Word and the Work of Interpretation(English, Paperback, Tedlock Dennis) is written by Tedlock Dennis and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 081221143X (ISBN 10) and 9780812211436 (ISBN 13).

Dennis Tedlock presents startling new methods for transcribing, translating, and interpreting oral performance that carry wide implications for all areas of the spoken arts. Moreover, he reveals how the categories and concepts of poetics and hermeneutics based in Western literary traditions cannot be carried over in their entirety to the spoken arts of other cultures but require extensive reevaluation.