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UNINA9910457911303321 |
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Autore |
Cachia Pierre |
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Titolo |
Exploring Arab folk literature / / Pierre Cachia [[electronic resource]] |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , 2011 |
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ISBN |
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0-7486-5330-9 |
1-283-37008-5 |
9786613370082 |
0-7486-5405-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xxvii, 222 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Folk literature, Arabic - History and criticism |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015). |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Arabic literatures, "elite" and "folk" : junctions and disjunctions -- The Egyptian Mawwāl : its ancestry, its development, and its present forms -- The Nahda's first stirrings of interest in Alf Layla -- The career of Muṣtafā Ibrāhīm 'Ajāj : a giant of Egyptian popular literature -- The prophet's shirt : three versions of an Egyptian narrative ballad -- An uncommon use of nonsense verse in colloquial Arabic -- An early example of narrative verse in colloquial Arabic -- An incomplete Egyptian ballad on the 1956 War -- An hounour crime with a difference -- Pulp stories in the repertoire of Egyptian folk singers -- Karam il-Yatīm -- Of loose verse and masculine beauty -- A Zajal on the Miʻrāj attributed to al-X̲ubārī -- Two perspectives on the "other" in Arabic literature -- Maltese : Arabic roots and sundry grafts -- Social values reflected in Egyptian popular ballads -- Folk themes in the works of Najīb Surūr -- Elite treatment of honour crimes in Modern Egypt. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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The character and range of Arab folk literature are investigated by Pierre Cachia in this collection of his pioneering essays in the field. |
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