TY - BOOK ID - 17039758 TI - Literary anthropology: a new interdisciplinary approach to people, signs and literature PY - 1988 SN - 9027220417 9786613720870 1280879564 9027275084 9789027220417 PB - Amsterdam: Benjamins, DB - UniCat KW - Literature and anthropology KW - Anthropology in literature KW - Oral tradition in literature KW - Anthropology KW - Signs and symbols KW - Semiotics KW - Congresses. KW - 82:316 KW - -Anthropology in literature KW - -Literature and anthropology KW - -Oral tradition in literature KW - -Semiotics KW - -Signs and symbols KW - -82:316 Literatuursociologie KW - Literatuursociologie KW - Representation, Symbolic KW - Semeiotics KW - Signs KW - Symbolic representation KW - Symbols KW - Abbreviations KW - Omens KW - Sign language KW - Symbolism KW - Visual communication KW - Semiology (Linguistics) KW - Semantics KW - Structuralism (Literary analysis) KW - Anthropology and literature KW - Human beings KW - Congresses KW - -Representation, Symbolic KW - 82:316 Literatuursociologie UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:17039758 AB - The traditional gulf between the theory and practice of literature and the various areas subjoined under anthropology has hindered the development of some very fruitful perspectives in the realm of poetics and the general theory of literature (particularly in its narrative forms). Poyatos' initial idea of literary anthropology as the study of people and their cultural manifestations through their national literatures - without doubt the richest source of documentation of human life-styles and the most advanced form of our projection in time and space and of communicating with contemporary and ER -