Heroic Poets, Poetic Heroes : The Ethnography of Performance in an Arabic Oral Epic Tradition

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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Reynolds, Dwight Fletcher, 1956- (-)
Otros Autores: Nagy, Gregory, contributor (contributor)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press 2018
1995.
Colección:Myth and poetics.
Materias:
Sīrat Banī Hilāl.
Rites and ceremonies > Egypt.
Oral tradition > Egypt.
Folklore > Egypt > Performance.
Epic poetry, Arabic > Egypt > History and criticism.
Ethnology > Egypt.
Egypt > Social life and customs.
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009422304906719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Foreword / Nagy, Gregory
  • Preface
  • Notes on Transcription and Transliteration
  • 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

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