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...

Résumé

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...

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Dwight F. Reynolds
• Edition: Cornell University Press
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 31.08.2018
• EAN: 9781501723216
• ISBN: 978-1-5017-2321-6
• Pages: 128
• Thèmes: Myth and Poetics; Myth and Poetics
• Catégorie: Sciences humaines, art, musique > Linguistique et littérature > Linguistique et littérature anglaises