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The Mute Immortals Speak : Pre-Islamic Poetry and the Poetics of Ritual.

The Mute Immortals Speak will be important for students and scholars in the fields of Middle Eastern literatures, Islamic studies, folklore, oral literature ...

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Stetkevych, Suzanne Pinckney
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1993.
Colección:Myth and Poetics Ser.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; THE MUTE IMMORTALS SPEAK; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Foreword; Preface; PART ONE: PRESENTING THE RITUAL PARADIGM; 1 Voicing the Mute Immortals: The Muʻallaqah of Labīd and the Rite of Passage; 2 Eating the Dead / The Dead Eating: Blood Vengeance as Sacrifice; PART TWO: THE PARADIGM OF PASSAGE MANQUÉ; 3 Taʻabbaṭa Sharran and Oedipus: A Paradigm of Passage Manqué; 4 Archetype and Attribution: Al-Shanfarā and the Lāmiyyat al-ʻArab; PART THREE: ORALITY AND GENDER IN THE ELEGY; 5 The Obligations and Poetics of Gender: Women's Elegy and Blood Vengeance
  • 6 Memory Inflamed: Muhalhil ibn Rabīʻah and the War of al-BasūsPART FOUR: THE MASTER POEM; 7 Regicide and Retribution: The Muʻallaqah of Imruʼ al-Qays; Appendix of Arabic Texts; Works Cited; Index