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The Mute Immortals Speak: Pre-Islamic Poetry and Poetics of Ritual Hardcover - 1993
by Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych
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- Title The Mute Immortals Speak: Pre-Islamic Poetry and Poetics of Ritual
- Author Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych
- Binding Hardcover
- Pages 352
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Cornell University Press
- Date 1993-08-26
- Features Bibliography, Index
- ISBN 9780801427640 / 0801427649
- Weight 1.52 lbs (0.69 kg)
- Dimensions 9 x 6 x 0.94 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 2.39 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
- Cultural Region: Middle Eastern
- Religious Orientation: Islamic
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 93018173
- Dewey Decimal Code 892.711
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Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1993. Hardcover with unclipped dust jacket. Light shelfwear to jacket and score to jacket rear. Board spine cocked and previous owner's name penned to FEP. Penned annotations to contents page, elegantly penned notations in Arabic to pages 48-49 & 52, plus a few pencilled annotations to a couple more pages. AD. Hardcover. Very Good. Used.
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The mute immortals speak : pre-Islamic poetry and the poetics of ritual / Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych
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Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1993. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; 334 pp. Contents; 1. Voicing the Mute Immortals: The Muallaqah of Labid and the Rite of Passage -- 2. Eating the Dead / The Dead Eating: Blood Vengeance as Sacrifice -- 3. Taabbata Sharran and Oedipus: A Paradigm of Passage Manque -- 4. Archetype and Attribution: Al-Shanfara and the Lamiyyat al-Arab -- 5. The Obligations and Poetics of Gender: Women's Elegy and Blood Vengeance -- 6. Memory Inflamed: Muhalhil ibn Rabiah and the War of al-Basus -- 7. Regicide and Retribution: The Muallaqah of Imru al-Qays. Subjects;Qasidas Themes, motives. Arabic poetry To 622 History and criticism. Rites and ceremonies in literature.
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