Poetry Without Poems or Poets
Poetry Without Poems or Poets
Jean Paulhan’s description of “hain-teny,” a form of poetic joust carried out with proverbs by the Merinas of Madagascar, stimulated ethnographers and literary theorists of the early twentieth century to elaborate models of a modular, iterable style of folk poetic composition. As Paulhan’s account of this folk genre was taken up by Granet, Jousse, Parry, Jakobson, Bogatyrev and others, the specificity of oral literature began to emerge.
Keywords: anonymity, folk literature, folklore, modularity, poetics, poetry
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