Heroic poets, poetic heroes : the ethnography of performance in an Arabic oral epic tradition /

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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Reynolds, Dwight Fletcher, 1956-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1995.
Colección:Myth and poetics.
Temas:
Sīrat Banī Hilāl.
Sīrat Banī Hilāl
Ethnology > Egypt.
Epic poetry, Arabic > Egypt > History and criticism.
Folklore > Performance > Egypt.
Oral tradition > Egypt.
Rites and ceremonies > Egypt.
Ethnologie > Égypte.
Folklore > Interprétation > Égypte.
Tradition orale > Égypte.
Rites et cérémonies > Égypte.
Poésie épique arabe > Égypte > Histoire et critique.
Epic poetry, Arabic
Ethnology
Folklore > Performance
Manners and customs
Oral tradition
Rites and ceremonies
Egypt > Social life and customs.
Égypte > Mœurs et coutumes.
Egypt
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : the tradition
  • pt. 1. The ethnography of a poetic tradition
  • 1. The village
  • 2. Poets inside and outside the epic
  • 3 . The economy of poetic style
  • pt. 2: Textual and performance strategies in the sahra
  • 4. The interplay of genres
  • 5 . The sahra a s social interaction
  • Conclusion: epic text and context
  • Appendix. Texts in Transliteration.

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