A World of Others' Words: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Intertextuality [Paperback]

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• A fascinating perspective on intertextuality: the idea that written and spoken texts speak to one another, e.g. through genre or allusions.
  
• Presents a series of ethnographic case studies to illustrate the topic.
  
• Draws on a broad range of oral performances and literary records from across the world.
  
• The author’s introduction sets a framework for the analysis of genre, perform and intertextuality.
  
• Shows how performers blend genres, e.g., telling stories about riddles or legends about magical verses, or constructing sales pitches.

Acknowledgments vii

Note on Transcription x

1 Introduction: Genre, Performance, and the Production of Intertextuality 1

2 “And the Verse is Thus”: Icelandic Stories About Magical Poems 15

3 “I’ll Give You Three Guesses”: The Dynamics of Genre in the Riddle Tale 34

4 “What Shall We Give You?”: Calibrations of Genre in a Mexican Market 58

5 “Bell, You Get the Spotted Pup”: First Person Narratives of a Texas Storyteller 82

6 “That I Can’t Tell You”: Negotiating Performance with a Nova Scotia Fisherman 109

7 “Go, My Reciter, Recite My Words”: Mediation, Tradition, Authority 128

8 Epilogue 159

Notes 163l£ˆ