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The major purpose of this book is to illustrate and explain the fundamental similarities and correspondences between humankind's oldest and newest thought-technologies: oral tradition and the Internet. Despite superficial differences, both technologies are radically alike in depending not on static products but rather on continuous processes, not on "What?" but on "How do I get there?" In contrast to the fixed spatial organization of the page and book, the technologies of oral tradition and the Internet mime the way we think by processing along pathways within a network. In both media it's pathways--not things--that matter. To illustrate these ideas, this volume is designed as a "morphing bo...
Presents contributions of leading scholars to the field of orally improvised poetry. Includes papers on Hispanic and extra-Hispanic improvised poetry as well as papers in which leading practitioners of bertsolaritza studied their own poetic art and its techniques.
Before Babel: A History of Basque Literatures is the first book written originally in English and directed towards a global audience. It is also a new departure from traditional literary histories, as it is not a philological tedious classification of centuries, authors, genres, and books published in Basque. This book addresses the historical conflict and violence that define Basque history and culture, and so it defines Basque literary history as that of at least two literatures: one expressed by Basque subaltern (oppressed) classes in their language, euskara, which mainly constitutes an oral tradition, and the other written by Basque elites in Spanish, Latin, French, etc. The book emphasi...
This book presents a captivating story about traditional sports and games in the current world. It moves from Denmark to the Basque Country and to Scotland, exploring traditional games in their local contexts. It highlights the numerous, practical functions of traditional games, showing that these games are very valuable, necessary, and actually fit the needs of our times! It offers an original perspective on traditional sports and games, providing captivating stories from personal trips to these countries and numerous practical descriptions and inspirational ideas about how to use traditional games in practice.
Spanish soccer is on top of the world, at international and club level, with the best teams and a seemingly endless supply of exciting and stylish players. While the Spanish economy struggles, its soccer flourishes, deeply embedded throughout Spanish social and cultural life. But the relationship between soccer, culture and national identity in Spain is complex. This fascinating, in-depth study shines new light on Spanish soccer by examining the role this sport plays in Basque identity, consolidated in Athletic Club of Bilbao, the century-old soccer club located in the birthplace of Basque nationalism. Athletic Bilbao has a unique player recruitment policy, allowing only Basque-born players ...
This collection of thirteen chapters answers new questions about rhyme, with views from folklore, ethnopoetics, the history of literature, literary criticism and music criticism, psychology and linguistics. The book examines rhyme as practiced or as understood in English, Old English and Old Norse, German, Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish and Karelian, Estonian, Medieval Latin, Arabic, and the Central Australian language Kaytetye. Some authors examine written poetry, including modernist poetry, and others focus on various kinds of sung poetry, including rap, which now has a pioneering role in taking rhyme into new traditions. Some authors consider the relation of rhyme to other types of form, notably alliteration. An introductory chapter discusses approaches to rhyme, and ends with a list of languages whose literatures or song traditions are known to have rhyme.
Ramón Zallo offers us with this informative book an overall synthesis of Basque culture, society and history. Thanks to its contents it may be destined to become a road map for understanding some keys about the country of the Basques. The author starts from a broad concept of Basque culture which, while it is not very well known, is proportionally very rich for such a small country. He conceives it as a whole culture and as having a history of its own, although it is very closely related to its surroundings. And its trajectory indicates the need to prioritize its development and singularity in this global world full of uncertainty. In Part One he traces (and vindicates) the cultural and spa...
EUSKADI ZABALKUNDE SARIA 1999 Nobela honetan gailurreraino darama Andoni Egañak guztiz berezkoa duen diztantziarako eta zehar-esanerako maisutasuna. Frai Kandidoren bizitza kontatzen du bertan. Bi argazkik mugatzen dute bizitza hori: 1930ekoa da bata, Jacako matxinadaren ondoren Francok epaitzen du; 1960koa da bestea, Zarauzko Lanbide Eskolako sortzaile gisa, Francok Eskolari eman dion saria jasotzera doa. Bi argazki horien artean mugitzen da nobela. Bi argazki eta bizitza ulertzeko modu bat.
Ez da batere ohikoa bertsolaritzaren gaia barne-ikuspegi batetik tratatzea. Kanpotik saiakera asko egin dira, baina barne-ikuspegia falta zitzaigun. Liburu honetan ikuspegi hori agertzen da. Bi bertsolari ditugu, gaur-gaurkoak, punta-puntakoak buruz buru gutunizketan. Bertsolaritzaz eta bertsolaritza ez denaz mintzo dira. Eta, gainera, era atsegin, sakon eta ezin gehiago gozagarri batean.Andoni eta Jonen arteko gutunizketa hau irakurrita, beraien jokabideak hobeto uler daitezkeelakoan gaude. Zenbaitetan kontrajarriak badirudite ere, bertsolaritzarekiko jarrera berberak, euskalgintzarekiko kezka berberak, herrigintzarekiko konpromezu berberak eragindako jokabideak dira batarena zein bestearena. Jarrera, kezka eta konpromezu horien azalpena da liburu ezohiko hau.
Contributions sur les représentations de la guerre civile espagnole dans l'historiographie, la littérature, le cinéma, la presse et l'enseignement depuis la mort de Franco, en Espagne et en Europe.