Heroic Poets, Poetic Heroes - The Ethnography of Performance in an Arabic Oral Epic Tradition

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 provide a context for social interaction and...

Summary

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 provide a context for social interaction and...

Product details

• Authors: Dwight F. Reynolds
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2018
• EAN: 9781501723216
• ISBN: 978-1-5017-2321-6
• No. of pages: 277
• Series: Myth and Poetics; Myth and Poetics
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies