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Exploring Arab folk literature /
The character and range of Arab folk literature are investigated by Pierre Cachia in this collection of his pioneering essays in the field. Arranged into three sections, Cachia looks first at historical developments in the relationship between Arab folk literature and that of the elite, the gradual...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Arabic |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
©2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part I: Fact finding. 1. Arabic literatures, "Elite" and "Folk" : junctions and disjunctions ; 2. The Egyptian Mawwal: its ancestry, its development, and its present forms ; 3. The Nahda's first stirrings of interest in Alf Layla ; 4. The career of Mustafa Ibrahim 'Ajaj
- Part II: Texts. 5. The Prophet's shirt: three versions of an Egyptian narrative ballad ; 6. An uncommon use of nonsense verse in colloquial Arabic ; 7. An early example of narrative verse in colloquial Arabic ; 8. An incomplete Egyptian ballad on the 1956 war ; 9. Three versions of an Egyptian narrative ballad ; 10. Pulp stories in the repertoire of Egyptian folk singers ; 11. Karam il-Yatim ; 12. Of loose verse and masculine beauty ; 13. A Zajal on the MiOriente moderno
- Part 3: Cultural and social implications. 14. Two perspectives on the "other" in Arabic literature ; 15. Maltese: Arabic roots and sundry grafts ; 16. Social values reflected in Egyptian popular ballads ; 17. Folk themes in the works of Najib Surur ; 18. Elite treatment of honour crimes in modern Egypt.