Literary Anthropology: A New Interdisciplinary Approach to People, Signs and Literature

Abstract

1. Introduction 2. Part I. Signs, Culture, and Literature: Toward a Theory of Literary Anthropology 3. 1. Literary anthropology: toward a new interdisciplinary area 4. 2. Literature as a source for anthropological research: the case of Jaroslav Hasek's Good soldier Svejk (by Winner, Thomas G.) 5. 3. La theorie culturelle et les etudes litteraires: poetique et anthropologie litteraire (by Sarkany, Stephane) 6. Part II. National Narratives and Ethnic Narratives 7. 4. Davy Crockett and Mike Fink: An interpretation of cultural continuity and change (by Botscharow, Lucy Jayne) 8. 5. Buddenbrooks, Thomas Mann, and north German social class: an application of literary anthropology (by Erickson, Vincent O.) 9. 6. Ethnic culture texts as narration (by Portis-Winner, Irene) 10. 7. Myth and Brazilian literature (by Zilberman, Regina) 11. 8. The recovered fragments: archeological and anthropological perspectives in Edith Wharton's The age of innocence (by Trumpener, Katie) 12. Part III. Literary Anthropology of Three Rural Worlds 13. 9. The Bible and the Hungarian peasant tradition (by Lammel, Annamaria) 14. 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 belief (by Enninger, Werner) 15. 11. Transylvanian people and Transylvanian literature: an attempt at the literary-anthropological analysis of Tamasi Aron's, Pavel Dan's and Erwin Wittstock's Short Stories (by David, Gyula) 16. Part IV. Two Genre Approaches to Literary Anthropology 17. 12. Avant-garde autobiography: deconstructing the modernist habitat (by Boelhower, William) 18. 13. The anthropology in/of fiction: novels about voyages (by Loriggio, Francesco) 19. 14. Symposium on Literary Anthropology - transcript of the closing discussion 20. List of contributors 21. Name index 22. Subject index