Heroic Poets, Poetic Heroes : The Ethnography of Performance in an Arabic Oral Epic Tradition / / Dwight Fletcher Reynolds.

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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Superior document:Myth and Poetics
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Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, N.Y. : : Cornell University Press,, 1995.
©1995.
Year of Publication:2018
1995
Language:English
Series:Myth and poetics.
Physical Description:1 online resource (246 pages) :; illustrations, photographs.
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