Research Catalog

Details

Description

1. 329 p. : ill.; 22 cm.

Subject

1. Language and languages
2. Oral tradition
3. Poetry > History and criticism
4. Ecology
5. Indigenous peoples > Canada
6. Langage et langues
7. Peuples autochtones > Canada
8. Tradition orale
9. Poésie > Histoire et critique
10. Environnement
11. languages (study discipline)
12. language (general communication)
13. environment (earth sciences concept)
14. Indigenous peoples
15. Poetry
16. Canada

Genre/Form

1. v – Lectures.
2. Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Contents

1. The polyhistorical mind -- The persistence of poetry and the destruction of the world -- The vocation of being, the text of the whole -- Native American oral literatures and the unity of the humanities -- The audible light in the eyes -- The voice in the mirror -- Poetry and thinking -- The tree of meaning and the work of ecological linguistics -- The humanity of speaking -- Prosodies of meaning : literary form in Native North America -- Wild language -- Finding home : the legacy of Bill Reid -- The silence that is not poetry, and the silence that is.

Owning institution

1. Harvard Library

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing action (note)

1. committed to retain