The Beginning of Print Culture in Athabasca Country: A Facsimile Edition & Translation of a Prayer Book in Cree Syllabics by Father ?mile Grouard, Omi, Prepared and Printed at Lac La Biche in 1883 with an Introduction by Patricia DeMers
The Beginning of Print Culture in Athabasca Country: A Facsimile Edition & Translation of a Prayer Book in Cree Syllabics by Father ?mile Grouard, Omi, Prepared and Printed at Lac La Biche in 1883 with an Introduction by Patricia DeMers
A signal event in the move from oral to print culture for the Cree was Father Grouard's prayer book, written in Syllabics and printed in 1883. More than a century later, Demers, McIlwraith, and Thunder reproduce the text, along with a direct English translation, a transliteration into the Standard Roman Orthography now in use as well as in nineteenth-century SRO. Demers offers an introduction to the work within its cultural framework; the translators together discuss Grouard's use of Cree Syllabics, which illuminates the ...
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A signal event in the move from oral to print culture for the Cree was Father Grouard's prayer book, written in Syllabics and printed in 1883. More than a century later, Demers, McIlwraith, and Thunder reproduce the text, along with a direct English translation, a transliteration into the Standard Roman Orthography now in use as well as in nineteenth-century SRO. Demers offers an introduction to the work within its cultural framework; the translators together discuss Grouard's use of Cree Syllabics, which illuminates the difficulties this missionary-pioneer faced in transferring the nuances of one language to another in which he was an ardent learner. Cree history scholars, linguists, and anyone interested in print history would be well served by adding this influential work to their library.
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Very Good+ in Very Good+ jacket. Book First Edition, First Printing stated on verso of title page; minor wear; some creasing to final page of the volume; otherwise a solid, clean copy with no marking or underlining; three parallel texts: Cree Syllabary, English, Romanized Cree.
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pp. 457. 4to. Bound in tan cloth with black lettering to spine. Text in English, French, Latin, and Syllabic and romanized Cree. Lightest shelfwear, ink inscription to front pastedown; near fine in near fine dustjacket. A facsimile edition and translation of a prayer book in Cree Syllabics.
