{"product_id":"a-story-as-sharp-as-a-knife-the-classical-haida-mythtellers-and-their-world-paperback","title":"A Story as Sharp as a Knife: The Classical Haida Mythtellers and Their World - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRobert Bringhurst\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Haida world is a misty archipelago a hundred stormy miles off the coasts of British Columbia and Alaska. For a thousand years and more before the Europeans came, a great culture flourished in these islands. The masterworks of classical Haida sculpture, now enshrined in many of the world's great museums, range from exquisite tiny amulets to magnificent huge housepoles. Classical Haida literature is every bit as various and fine. It extends from tiny jewels crafted by master songmakers to elaborate mythic cycles lasting many hours. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe linguist and ethnographer John Swanton took dictation from the last great Haida-speaking storytellers, poets and historians from the fall of 1900 through the summer of 1901. His Haida hosts and colleagues had been raised in a wholly oral world where the mythic and the personal interpenetrate completely. They joined forces with their visitor, consciously creating a great treasury of Haida oral literature in written form. Poet and linguist Robert Bringhurst has worked for many years with these century-old manuscripts, which have waited until now for the broad recognition they deserve. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBringhurst brings these works to life in the English language and sets them in a context just as rich as the stories themselves--one that reaches out to dozens of Native American oral literatures, and to mythtelling traditions around the globe. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe world of classical Haida literature is a world as deep as the ocean, as close as the heart and as elusive as the Raven, whose unrepentant laugh persists within it all. This is a tradition brimming with profundity, hilariy and love. It belongs where Bringhurst sees it: among the great traditions of the world. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBringhurst, an acclaimed typographer and book designer, will be redesigning this edition in a beautiful new package.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eRobert Bringhurst is one of Canada's most respected poets, designers and most probing cultural historians. He has been a Guggenheim Fellow, lectured on Native American art and oral literature at universities around the world, studies linguistics at MIT under Noam Chomsky in the 1960s, and worked as a professional translator from Arabic and Greek.He is the author of the bestselling treatise on typography \u003ci\u003eElements of Typographic Style\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBringhurst began to study the Haida language in 1982. His translations of Haida oral poetry have since appeared in major scholarly journals and in Brian Swann's groundbreaking anthology \u003ci\u003eComing to Light: Contemporary Translations of the Native Literatures of North America.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 544\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.4 x 8.3 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 01, 2011\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51771667022112,"sku":"9781553658399","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/f1927fac1776e9af24239306a8b9e96d.webp?v=1780390675","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/a-story-as-sharp-as-a-knife-the-classical-haida-mythtellers-and-their-world-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}