Arabian Epic: Volume 2, Analysis - Heroic and Oral Story-Telling

Zusammenfassung The hero cycles of Arabic belong to the literary tradition of The Arabian Nights and can be seen as the popular epics of their civilisation. Published in three volumes! the first introduces the background to the cycles! while the second analyses their contents and literary formulae. The epitomes surveyed in the final volume provide further insight into their literary nuances. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction to volume two; 1. 'Ali al-Zaibag; 2. Sirat 'Antar; 3. Sirat al-Zahir Baibars; 4. Sirat Bani Hilal al-Kubra; 5. Taghribat Bani Hilal; 6. Qissat Abu Zaid al-Hilali wa'l-Na'isa; 7. Sirat al-Amira Dhat al Himma; 8. Firuz Shah; 9. Sirat Saif b. Dhi Yazan; 10. Sirat Saif al-Tijan; 11. Qissat al-Zir; Narrative index; Source references; Comparative index.

Product details

• Authors: M. C. Lyons, M. C. (University of Cambridge) Lyons, Malcolm C. Lyons
• Assisted by: Faculty Of Oriental Studies (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.06.2005
• EAN: 9780521017398
• ISBN: 978-0-521-01739-8
• No. of pages: 504
• Series: University of Cambridge Orient
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Middle Ages