Heroic Poets, Poetic Heroes : The Ethnography of Performance in an Arabic Oral Epic Tradition / Dwight F. Reynolds
by Reynolds, Dwight F
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Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, 1995. 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; 128 pp. Contents; 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. Subjects; S rat Ban Hil l. Anthropology. Folklore & Mythology. Rites and ceremonies Egypt. Oral tradition. Ethnology. Manners and customs.
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- Title
- Heroic Poets, Poetic Heroes : The Ethnography of Performance in an Arabic Oral Epic Tradition / Dwight F. Reynolds
- Author
- Reynolds, Dwight F
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
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- 1
- Edition
- 1st edition
- ISBN 10
- 0801431743
- ISBN 13
- 9780801431746
- Publisher
- Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press
- Place of Publication
- Ithaca
- Date Published
- 1995
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