Parallel worlds: genre, discourse, and poetics in contemporary, colonial, and classic period Maya literature - Hull, Kerry M., editor; Carrasco, Michael D., editor; University Press of Colorado, publisher (Colorado State University. Libraries, 2012)
The narrative structure of Chol folktales: one thousand years of literary tradition / Nicholas A. Hopkins and J. Kathryn Josserand -- Syntactic inversion (hyperbaton) as a literary device in Maya hieroglyphic texts / Alfonso Lacadena -- Poetic tenacity: a diachronic study of kennings in Mayan languages / Kerry M. Hull -- The history, rhetoric, and poetics of three Palenque narratives / Michael D. Carrasco -- Understanding discourse: beyond couplets and calendrics first / Lloyd B. Anderson -- Drawing and designing with words / Dennis Tedlock -- Narrative structure and the drum major headdress / Karen Bassie-Sweet, Nicholas A. Hopkins, and J. Kathryn Josserand -- Creation narratives in the postclassic Maya codices / Gabrielle Vail -- Some historical continuities in Lowland Maya magical speech genres: keying shamanic performance / Timothy W. Knowlton -- Appropriating sacred speech: aesthetics and authority in colonial Ch'olti' / Danny Law -- Poetics in the Popol Wuj / Luis Enrique Sam Colop -- The use of chiasmus by the ancient K'iche' Maya / Allen J. Christenson -- Before poetry, the words: a metalinguistic digression / Aurore Monod Becquelin and Alain Breton -- Humor through Yucatec Mayan stories / Allan F. Burns -- A comparison of narrative style in Mopan and Itzaj Mayan / Charles Andrew Hofling -- The lights dim but don't go out on the stars of Yucatec Maya oral literature / Mary H. Preuss -- To speak the words of Colonial Tzotzil / Robert M. Laughlin.
Keywords: Maya literature -- History and criticism; Maya poetry -- History and criticism