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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés Arabic |
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
1993.
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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.