Heroic poets, poetic heroes : the ethnography of performance in an Arabic oral epic tradition /
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...
Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
1995.
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Series: | Myth and poetics.
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Online Access: | Texto completo |