Heroic Poets, Poetic Heroes : The Ethnography of Performance in an Arabic Oral Epic Tradition /
An astonishingly rich oral epic that chronicles the early history of a Bedouin tribe, the Sirat Bani Hilal has been performed for almost a thousand years. In this ethnography of a contemporary community of professional poet-singers, Dwight F. Reynolds reveals how the epic tradition continues to prov...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ithaca, NY :
Cornell University Press,
[2018]
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Colección: | Myth and Poetics
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Foreword / Nagy, Gregory
- Preface
- Notes on Transcription and Transliteration
- Introduction: The Tradition
- Part One: The Ethnography of a Poetic Tradition
- I. The Village
- 2. Poets Inside and Outside the Epic
- 3. The Economy of Poetic Style
- Part Two: Textual and Performance Strategies in the Sahra
- 4. The Interplay of Genres
- 5. The Sahra as Social Interaction
- Conclusion: Epic Text and Context
- Appendix: Texts in Transliteration
- Works Cited
- Index