A World of Others' Words: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Intertextuality

Acknowledgments vii

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1 Introduction: Genre, Performance, and the Production of Intertextuality 1

2 “And the Verse is Thus”: Icelandic Stories About Magical Poems 15

3 “I’ll Give You Three Guesses”: The Dynamics of Genre in the Riddle Tale 34

4 “What Shall We Give You?”: Calibrations of Genre in a Mexican Market 58

5 “Bell, You Get the Spotted Pup”: First Person Narratives of a Texas Storyteller 82

6 “That I Can’t Tell You”: Negotiating Performance with a Nova Scotia Fisherman 109

7 “Go, My Reciter, Recite My Words”: Mediation, Tradition, Authority 128

8 Epilogue 159

Notes 163

References 167

Index 178