Christopher Hatchell
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- November 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780199982905
- eISBN:
- 9780199369980
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199982905.003.0003
- Subject:
- Religion, Buddhism
This chapter discusses the history of the Bön Great Perfection group known as the Oral Tradition from Zhang Zhung, and provides background for their visionary text Advice on the Six Lamps.
This chapter discusses the history of the Bön Great Perfection group known as the Oral Tradition from Zhang Zhung, and provides background for their visionary text Advice on the Six Lamps.
Heather Maring
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- January 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780813054469
- eISBN:
- 9780813053202
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813054469.003.0002
- Subject:
- Literature, Early and Medieval Literature
Chapter 1 proposes that oral-traditional and literate features of a text do not correlate with a Germanic past and a Christian present. Instead, poets treat these modes of communication, ...
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Chapter 1 proposes that oral-traditional and literate features of a text do not correlate with a Germanic past and a Christian present. Instead, poets treat these modes of communication, simultaneously, as part of their poetic inheritance. In order to better describe how hybrid signs communicate, this chapter surveys defining characteristics of oral traditions (i.e., metonymy as described in the theory of Immanent Art), rituals (i.e., ritual signification), and literate traditions (i.e., medieval hermeneutics). The chapter explores oral-connected, oral-literate, and ritual signs in Exeter Riddle 30a/b to demonstrate how hybrid poetics can further our understanding of an Old English poem.Less
Chapter 1 proposes that oral-traditional and literate features of a text do not correlate with a Germanic past and a Christian present. Instead, poets treat these modes of communication, simultaneously, as part of their poetic inheritance. In order to better describe how hybrid signs communicate, this chapter surveys defining characteristics of oral traditions (i.e., metonymy as described in the theory of Immanent Art), rituals (i.e., ritual signification), and literate traditions (i.e., medieval hermeneutics). The chapter explores oral-connected, oral-literate, and ritual signs in Exeter Riddle 30a/b to demonstrate how hybrid poetics can further our understanding of an Old English poem.
Heather Maring
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- January 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780813054469
- eISBN:
- 9780813053202
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813054469.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, Early and Medieval Literature
Signs That Sing argues that Anglo-Saxon poets wrote by drawing from a broad range of verbal resources: oral tradition, ecclesiastical literature, and Christian liturgy. Hybrid oral, written, and ...
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Signs That Sing argues that Anglo-Saxon poets wrote by drawing from a broad range of verbal resources: oral tradition, ecclesiastical literature, and Christian liturgy. Hybrid oral, written, and liturgical ways of speaking form a fundamental poetic strategy in Old English verse. In the field of medieval literature, written oral-traditional idioms, such as formulaic systems, themes, typescenes, and story patterns, are commonly recognized as hybrid expressions. Signs That Sing describes two other major types of hybrid poetic expression: ritual signs and idioms that fuse oral and literate modes of interpretation. This book demonstrates how hybrid expressions play meaningful roles in Advent Lyrics (Christ I), “Alms-Giving,” Andreas, The Battle of Maldon, Beowulf, Deor, The Dream of the Rood, Genesis A/B, The Gifts of Men, Soul and Body I and II, Thureth, Widsith, and select riddles. By viewing hybrid expressions as a creative resource for Anglo-Saxon poets, we are in a better position to appreciate the rhetorical complexity of their poems. Ultimately, Signs That Sing presents new ways of reading and interpreting Old English poems, while offering scholars of orality and ritual studies theoretical and practical implications for the study of hybrid texts.Less
Signs That Sing argues that Anglo-Saxon poets wrote by drawing from a broad range of verbal resources: oral tradition, ecclesiastical literature, and Christian liturgy. Hybrid oral, written, and liturgical ways of speaking form a fundamental poetic strategy in Old English verse. In the field of medieval literature, written oral-traditional idioms, such as formulaic systems, themes, typescenes, and story patterns, are commonly recognized as hybrid expressions. Signs That Sing describes two other major types of hybrid poetic expression: ritual signs and idioms that fuse oral and literate modes of interpretation. This book demonstrates how hybrid expressions play meaningful roles in Advent Lyrics (Christ I), “Alms-Giving,” Andreas, The Battle of Maldon, Beowulf, Deor, The Dream of the Rood, Genesis A/B, The Gifts of Men, Soul and Body I and II, Thureth, Widsith, and select riddles. By viewing hybrid expressions as a creative resource for Anglo-Saxon poets, we are in a better position to appreciate the rhetorical complexity of their poems. Ultimately, Signs That Sing presents new ways of reading and interpreting Old English poems, while offering scholars of orality and ritual studies theoretical and practical implications for the study of hybrid texts.
Toni Pressley-Sanon
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- September 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780813054407
- eISBN:
- 9780813053141
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813054407.001.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Latin American Studies
Istwa across the Water draws on the historian and poet Kamau Brathwaite’s concept of tidalectics as cultural exchange that is patterned after the back and forth movement of the ocean’s waves, to ...
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Istwa across the Water draws on the historian and poet Kamau Brathwaite’s concept of tidalectics as cultural exchange that is patterned after the back and forth movement of the ocean’s waves, to explore Haitian cultural production through the lenses of history and memory by way of the Vodou concept of the Marasa or twinned entities. Istwa across the Water takes on Haiti’s complementary or twinned sites of cultural production in the West African area of Dahomey/Benin Republic and the Central West African Kôngo region from which many Haitians originate. It discusses oral and visual art traditions from both sides of the Atlantic divide as a means to explore the dynamic and constantly evolving exchange of physical and spiritual energies between Haiti and its “motherlands” (sites of origin) as Spirit seeks to restore the balance that was lost during the transatlantic trade and slave era.Less
Istwa across the Water draws on the historian and poet Kamau Brathwaite’s concept of tidalectics as cultural exchange that is patterned after the back and forth movement of the ocean’s waves, to explore Haitian cultural production through the lenses of history and memory by way of the Vodou concept of the Marasa or twinned entities. Istwa across the Water takes on Haiti’s complementary or twinned sites of cultural production in the West African area of Dahomey/Benin Republic and the Central West African Kôngo region from which many Haitians originate. It discusses oral and visual art traditions from both sides of the Atlantic divide as a means to explore the dynamic and constantly evolving exchange of physical and spiritual energies between Haiti and its “motherlands” (sites of origin) as Spirit seeks to restore the balance that was lost during the transatlantic trade and slave era.
Raylene Ramsay
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- September 2014
- ISBN:
- 9781781380376
- eISBN:
- 9781781387221
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9781781380376.003.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, World Literature
The Pacific expeditions of Cook and D’Entrecasteaux, the Forsters and La Billardière encounter the Oceanian Other largely through the lens of European frames of perception, most notably the revival ...
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The Pacific expeditions of Cook and D’Entrecasteaux, the Forsters and La Billardière encounter the Oceanian Other largely through the lens of European frames of perception, most notably the revival of classical mythology and the figure of the noble savage. Although the ‘scientific’ eighteenth-century male spyglass occludes any serious consideration of gender equality, in both the South Seas paradise of ‘Tahiti’ and in a rapidly darker New Caledonia, these early accounts of contact can be seen, for example, to proceed from an implicit interest in the sexual availability of women. Reading the explorers’ texts retroactively to detect the traces of gender bias or again of indigenous social systems creates a hybrid or palimpsestic third space in which different layers of knowledge and preconception co-exist. This first, and itself hybrid, chapter presents what can be read between the lines in the explorers’ texts alongside a second set of foundation stories. In the translations and re-tellings of the tales of Kanak oral tradition, the position and, in particular, the gender of the listener, teller, or reader come to add themselves to the tale told.Less
The Pacific expeditions of Cook and D’Entrecasteaux, the Forsters and La Billardière encounter the Oceanian Other largely through the lens of European frames of perception, most notably the revival of classical mythology and the figure of the noble savage. Although the ‘scientific’ eighteenth-century male spyglass occludes any serious consideration of gender equality, in both the South Seas paradise of ‘Tahiti’ and in a rapidly darker New Caledonia, these early accounts of contact can be seen, for example, to proceed from an implicit interest in the sexual availability of women. Reading the explorers’ texts retroactively to detect the traces of gender bias or again of indigenous social systems creates a hybrid or palimpsestic third space in which different layers of knowledge and preconception co-exist. This first, and itself hybrid, chapter presents what can be read between the lines in the explorers’ texts alongside a second set of foundation stories. In the translations and re-tellings of the tales of Kanak oral tradition, the position and, in particular, the gender of the listener, teller, or reader come to add themselves to the tale told.
Christopher Hatchell
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- November 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780199982905
- eISBN:
- 9780199369980
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199982905.003.0010
- Subject:
- Religion, Buddhism
This chapter provides full English translations of the Bön Great Perfection texts Advice on the Six Lamps, and Drugyalwa’s commentary to this text. The text discusses how a luminous awareness, ...
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This chapter provides full English translations of the Bön Great Perfection texts Advice on the Six Lamps, and Drugyalwa’s commentary to this text. The text discusses how a luminous awareness, located at the heart, can be projected through the eyes and seen in vision.Less
This chapter provides full English translations of the Bön Great Perfection texts Advice on the Six Lamps, and Drugyalwa’s commentary to this text. The text discusses how a luminous awareness, located at the heart, can be projected through the eyes and seen in vision.
Christopher Hatchell and Drugom Gyalwa Yungdrung
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- November 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780199982905
- eISBN:
- 9780199369980
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199982905.003.0011
- Subject:
- Religion, Buddhism
This chapter provides full English translations of the Bön Great Perfection texts Advice on the Six Lamps, and Drugyalwa’s commentary to this text. The text discusses how a luminous awareness, ...
More
This chapter provides full English translations of the Bön Great Perfection texts Advice on the Six Lamps, and Drugyalwa’s commentary to this text. The text discusses how a luminous awareness, located at the heart, can be projected through the eyes and seen in vision.Less
This chapter provides full English translations of the Bön Great Perfection texts Advice on the Six Lamps, and Drugyalwa’s commentary to this text. The text discusses how a luminous awareness, located at the heart, can be projected through the eyes and seen in vision.
