Heroic Poets, Poetic Heroes : The Ethnography of Performance in an Arabic Oral Epic Tradition
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Format
Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Myth and Poetics
ISBN-10
0801431743
ISBN-13
9780801431746
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Imprint
Cornell University Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
May 11th, 1995
Print length
277 Pages
Weight
598 grams
Dimensions
23.50 x 16.20 x 2.30 cms
Product Classification:
Literary studies: generalFolklore, myths & legends
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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 provide a context for social interaction and commentary. Reynolds's account is based on performances in the northern Egyptian village in which he studied as an apprentice to a master epic-singer. Reynolds explains in detail the narrative structure of the Sirat Bani Hilal as well as the tradition of epic singing. He sees both living epic poets and fictional epic heroes as figures engaged in an ongoing dialogue with audiences concerning such vital issues as ethnicity, religious orientation, codes of behavior, gender roles, and social hierarchies.
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