Heroic Poets, Poetic Heroes : The Ethnography of Performance in an Arabic Oral Epic Tradition
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Myth and Poetics
ISBN-10
1501723219
ISBN-13
9781501723216
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Imprint
Cornell University Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Aug 15th, 2018
Print length
277 Pages
Weight
454 grams
Dimensions
22.90 x 15.20 x 1.90 cms
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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...
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