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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Table of Contents:
- 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