Dramatic moments such as this one disappear in the recasting of this story by Hymes ( 1980). In his search for verse structures in the version of the text and translation I published in the original edition of the present book, he reorganized the lines on the basis of the words and phrases alone, as if he were dealing with a conventional prose text. The result has the visual appearance of lyric verse arranged in stanzas, but it has little to do with the way a narrative performance unfolds in time. For a further discussion see D. Tedlock ( 1983: 56 - 61 ).
For a detailed study dealing with the variable interaction between pause phrasing and syntactic phrasing in oral narrative, see Woodbury ( 1987), whose example is a Yup'ik Eskimo tale.
Bakhtin, in setting up the multivocal novel as an advance over the uni- vocal epic, ignores the folktale; see the essays on "Epic and the Novel" and "Discourse in the Novel" in Bakhtin ( 1981). Narratives of personal history can also be spoken with a rich multivocality, as in the case of a Nahuatl performance analyzed by Hill ( 1995).
This aligns Andrew's version more closely with the fourfold creations and destructions of Mesoamerican traditions.
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Publication Information: Book Title: Finding the Center: The Art of the Zuni Storyteller. Contributors: Andrew Peynetsa - author, Walter Sanchez - author, Dennis Tedlock - transltr. Publisher: University of Nebraska Press. Place of Publication: Lincoln, NE. Publication Year: 1999. Page Number: xliv.
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