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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...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Reynolds, Dwight Fletcher, 1956-
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1995.
Collection:Myth and poetics.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.