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 ofal-Basus
  • 7. Regicide and Retribution: The Muallaqah of Imru al-Qays.