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Reynolds Dwight Fletcher <1956-> |
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Titolo |
Heroic Poets, Poetic Heroes : The Ethnography of Performance in an Arabic Oral Epic Tradition / / Dwight Fletcher Reynolds |
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Cornell University Press, 2018 |
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Ithaca, N.Y. : , : Cornell University Press, , 1995 |
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©1995 |
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1-5017-2321-9 |
1-5017-2322-7 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (246 pages) : illustrations, photographs |
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Soggetti |
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Rites and ceremonies - Egypt |
Oral tradition - Egypt |
Folklore - Egypt - Performance |
Epic poetry, Arabic - Egypt - History and criticism |
Ethnology - Egypt |
Egypt Social life and customs |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-238) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Foreword / Nagy, Gregory -- Preface -- Notes on Transcription and Transliteration -- 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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 commentary. Reynolds's account is based on performances in the |
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