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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Auteur principal: Reynolds, Dwight F. (auth)
Format: Électronique Chapitre de livre
Langue:anglais
Publié: Ithaca Cornell University Press 1995
Collection:Myth and Poetics
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