In:Literary Anthropology: A new interdisciplinary approach to people, signs and literature
Edited by Fernando Poyatos
[Not in series 36] 1988
► pp. ix–x
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Published online: 1 January 1988
https://doi.org/10.1075/z.36.toc
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Table of contents
Introductionxi
Part I. Signs, Culture, and Literature: Toward a Theory of Literary Anthropology
1. Literary anthropology: toward a new interdisciplinary area3
2. Literature as a source for anthropological research: the case of Jaroslav Hašek’s Good soldier Švejk51
3. La théorie culturelle et les études littéraires: poétique et anthropologie littéraire63
Part II. National Narratives and Ethnic Narratives
4. Davy Crockett and Mike Fink: An interpretation of cultural continuity and change75
5. Buddenbrooks, Thomas Mann, and north German social class: an application of literary anthropology95
8. The recovered fragments: archeological and anthropological perspectives in Edith Wharton’s The age of innocence161
Part III. Literary Anthropology of Three Rural Worlds
10. The social construction of past, present and future in the written and oral texts of the Old Order Amish: an ethnosemiotic approach to social belief195
11. Transylvanian people and Transylvanian literature: an attempt at the literary-anthropological analysis of Tamási Áron’s, Pavel Dan’s and Erwin Wittstock’s Short Stories257
Part IV. Two Genre Approaches to Literary Anthropology
14. Symposium on Literary Anthropology — transcript of the closing discussion327
List of contributors339
Name index343
Subject index351
