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The mute immortals speak : pre-Islamic poetry and the poetics of ritual /

A body of Bedouin oral poetry which was collected in the second or third Islamic century, the pre-Islamic qasidah, or ode, stands with the Qur'an as a twin foundation of Arabo-Islamic literary culture. Throughout the rich fifteen-hundred-year history of classical Arabic literature, the qasidah...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Stetkevych, Suzanne Pinckney
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Arabic
Publicado: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1993.
Colección:Myth and poetics.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword / Gregory Nagy
  • 1. Voicing the Mute Immortals: The Muallaqah of Labid and the Rite of Passage
  • 2. Eating the Dead / The Dead Eating: Blood Vengeance as Sacrifice
  • 3. Taabbata Sharran and Oedipus: A Paradigm of Passage Manque
  • 4. Archetype and Attribution: Al-Shanfara and the Lamiyyat al-Arab
  • 5. The Obligations and Poetics of Gender: Women's Elegy and Blood Vengeance
  • 6. Memory Inflamed: Muhalhil ibn Rabiah and the War of al-Basus
  • 7. Regicide and Retribution: The Muallaqah of Imru al-Qays.