Heroic Poets, Poetic Heroes : The Ethnography of Performance in an Arabic Oral Epic Tradition / Dwight F. Reynolds
1995, 1st edition. Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #385852
ISBN: 0801431743
Physical description; 128 pp. Contents; Introduction: The Tradition -- Part One: The Ethnography of a Poetic Tradition -- I. The Village -- 2. Poets Inside and Outside the Epic -- 3. The Economy of Poetic Style -- Part Two: Textual and Performance Strategies in the Sahra -- 4. The Interplay of Genres -- 5. The Sahra as Social Interaction -- Conclusion: Epic Text and Context -- Appendix: Texts in Transliteration -- Works Cited -- Index. Subjects; S rat Ban Hil l. Anthropology. Folklore & Mythology. Rites and ceremonies Egypt. Oral tradition. Ethnology. Manners and customs.
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