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.
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (246 pages) :; illustrations, photographs. |
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