Peter Seitel
Biographic Data
| ID | 314355 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Seitel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Seitel |
| SIGNATURE | SEITEL P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Princeton University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Potentials and Challenges in Oral Tradition Research and Education: Synchrotext Software
This short note introduces Synchrotext software, which was designed for representing African oral traditions and other kinds of performances and events. I began my documentation and analysis of Haya oral tradition in 1968. Synchrotext is the product of a decades-long project to adequately represent Haya oral traditions with an appropriate technology and an analytic frame that communicate the meaning and art in performance. Synchrotext provides a …
Theorizing Genres--Interpreting Works
My goal in theorizing genre is to fortify interpretation - to enhance one's ability to understand and appreciate particular works as literary art. Genre in this sense is a lens through which historical and aesthetic features of a work become more visible, a mode of deductive critical reasoning that develops interpretive hypotheses. It is based on previous conceptualizations of genre as represented world, as framework of expectation, and as "a too…
Anu Koleksyonn Folklor Moris / Collecting Folklore in Mauritius
The Powers of Genre: Interpreting Haya Oral Literature
The Powers of Genre describes a method for interpreting oral literature that enables dialogue between insiders and outsiders to a tradition. Seitel illustrates this method with lively examples from Haya (from Northwestern Tanzania) proverbs, folktales, and heroic verse. He then focuses on a single epic ballad to demonstrate, among other things, why stanzas need not rhyme, and how significance needs time in oral poetry and narrative. He makes a co…
The 1991 Festival of American Folklife
Magic, Knowledge, and Irony in Scholarly Exchange: A Comment on Robert Cantwell's Observations on the Festival of American Folklife
Peter Seitel, Magic, Knowledge, and Irony in Scholarly Exchange: A Comment on Robert Cantwell's Observations on the Festival of American Folklife, The Journal of American Folklore, Vol. 104, No. 414 (Autumn, 1991), pp. 495-496
Allegories of the Wilderness: Ethics and Ambiguity in Kuranko Narratives
See so That We May See: Performances and Interpretations of Traditional Tales from Tanzania
See So That We May See: Performances and Interpretations of Traditional Tales from Tanzania
See So that We May See: Performances and Interpretations of Traditional Tales from Tanzania
African Dilemma Tales
Blocking the Wind: A Haya Folktale and an Interpretation
Haya metaphors for speech
Metaphorical statements about speech are shown to embody implicitly certain indigenously named semantic dimensions. Hayas use these dimensions to conceive of and evaluate their own speech behavior. The dimensions are specified first through indigenous literal statements about speech, then through one-word metaphors applied to speech, and finally through ten proverbs about speech interactions that link metaphorically a named category of speech act…
See So That We May See: Performances and Interpretations of Traditional Tales from Tanzania
See So that We May See: Performances and Interpretations of Traditional Tales from Tanzania
Haya metaphors for speech
Metaphorical statements about speech are shown to embody implicitly certain indigenously named semantic dimensions. Hayas use these dimensions to conceive of and evaluate their own speech behavior. The dimensions are specified first through indigenous literal statements about speech, then through one-word metaphors applied to speech, and finally through ten proverbs about speech interactions that link metaphorically a named category of speech act…
Theorizing Genres--Interpreting Works
My goal in theorizing genre is to fortify interpretation - to enhance one's ability to understand and appreciate particular works as literary art. Genre in this sense is a lens through which historical and aesthetic features of a work become more visible, a mode of deductive critical reasoning that develops interpretive hypotheses. It is based on previous conceptualizations of genre as represented world, as framework of expectation, and as "a too…
Anu Koleksyonn Folklor Moris / Collecting Folklore in Mauritius
Blocking the Wind: A Haya Folktale and an Interpretation
Haya metaphors for speech
Metaphorical statements about speech are shown to embody implicitly certain indigenously named semantic dimensions. Hayas use these dimensions to conceive of and evaluate their own speech behavior. The dimensions are specified first through indigenous literal statements about speech, then through one-word metaphors applied to speech, and finally through ten proverbs about speech interactions that link metaphorically a named category of speech act…
Blocking the Wind: A Haya Folktale and an Interpretation
African Dilemma Tales
See So that We May See: Performances and Interpretations of Traditional Tales from Tanzania
See So That We May See: Performances and Interpretations of Traditional Tales from Tanzania
See so That We May See: Performances and Interpretations of Traditional Tales from Tanzania
Allegories of the Wilderness: Ethics and Ambiguity in Kuranko Narratives
Magic, Knowledge, and Irony in Scholarly Exchange: A Comment on Robert Cantwell's Observations on the Festival of American Folklife
Peter Seitel, Magic, Knowledge, and Irony in Scholarly Exchange: A Comment on Robert Cantwell's Observations on the Festival of American Folklife, The Journal of American Folklore, Vol. 104, No. 414 (Autumn, 1991), pp. 495-496
The 1991 Festival of American Folklife
The Powers of Genre: Interpreting Haya Oral Literature
The Powers of Genre describes a method for interpreting oral literature that enables dialogue between insiders and outsiders to a tradition. Seitel illustrates this method with lively examples from Haya (from Northwestern Tanzania) proverbs, folktales, and heroic verse. He then focuses on a single epic ballad to demonstrate, among other things, why stanzas need not rhyme, and how significance needs time in oral poetry and narrative. He makes a co…
Anu Koleksyonn Folklor Moris / Collecting Folklore in Mauritius
Theorizing Genres--Interpreting Works
My goal in theorizing genre is to fortify interpretation - to enhance one's ability to understand and appreciate particular works as literary art. Genre in this sense is a lens through which historical and aesthetic features of a work become more visible, a mode of deductive critical reasoning that develops interpretive hypotheses. It is based on previous conceptualizations of genre as represented world, as framework of expectation, and as "a too…
Potentials and Challenges in Oral Tradition Research and Education: Synchrotext Software
This short note introduces Synchrotext software, which was designed for representing African oral traditions and other kinds of performances and events. I began my documentation and analysis of Haya oral tradition in 1968. Synchrotext is the product of a decades-long project to adequately represent Haya oral traditions with an appropriate technology and an analytic frame that communicate the meaning and art in performance. Synchrotext provides a …
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