1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910781523303321

Autore

Cachia Pierre

Titolo

Exploring Arab folk literature / / Pierre Cachia

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , 2011

ISBN

0-7486-5330-9

1-283-37008-5

9786613370082

0-7486-5405-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxvii, 222 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Classificazione

EN 2900

Disciplina

398.2089927

Soggetti

Folk literature, Arabic - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

The character and range of Arab folk literature are investigated by Pierre Cachia in this collection of his pioneering essays in the field.



2.

Record Nr.

UNIORUON00193194

Autore

Bertens, Hans

Titolo

The idea of the postmodern : a history / Hans Bertens

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; New York, : Routledge, 1995

ISBN

04-15-06012-5

Descrizione fisica

ix, 284 p. ; 22 cm.

Disciplina

700

Soggetti

POSTMODERNISMO

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia