LEADER 04492oam 22006974a 450 001 9910820990103321 005 20230525172031.0 010 $a1-5017-2018-X 010 $a1-5017-2017-1 024 7 $a10.7591/9781501720178 035 $a(CKB)4100000008693349 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5813623 035 $a(DE-B1597)535290 035 $a(OCoLC)1125187023 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781501720178 035 $a(OCoLC)1117445443 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse78596 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000008693349 100 $a20190905d1993 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe mute immortals speak $epre-Islamic poetry and the poetics of ritual /$fSuzanne Pinckney Stetkevych 210 1$aIthaca :$cCornell University Press,$d1993. 210 3$aBaltimore, Md. :$cProject MUSE,$d2021 210 4$dİ1993. 215 $a1 online resource (xvi, 334 pages) 225 0 $aMyth and poetics 300 $a"Appendix of Arabic texts"--Page 287-317. 311 0 $a0-8014-8046-9 311 0 $a0-8014-2764-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aForeword / Gregory Nagy -- 1. Voicing the Mute Immortals: The Muallaqah of Labid and the Rite of Passage -- 2. Eating the Dead / The Dead Eating: Blood Vengeance as Sacrifice -- 3. Taabbata Sharran and Oedipus: A Paradigm of Passage Manque -- 4. Archetype and Attribution: Al-Shanfara and the Lamiyyat al-Arab -- 5. The Obligations and Poetics of Gender: Women's Elegy and Blood Vengeance -- 6. Memory Inflamed: Muhalhil ibn Rabiah and the War ofal-Basus -- 7. Regicide and Retribution: The Muallaqah of Imru al-Qays. 330 $aA body of Bedouin oral poetry which was collected in the second or third Islamic century, the pre-Islamic qasidah, or ode, stands with the Qur'an as a twin foundation of Arabo-Islamic literary culture. Throughout the rich fifteen-hundred-year history of classical Arabic literature, the qasidah served as profane anti-text to the sacred text of the Qur'an. While recognizing the esteem in which Arabs have traditionally held this poetry of the pagan past, modern critics in both East and West have yet to formulate a poetics that would provide the means to analyze and evaluate the qasidah. Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych here offers the first aesthetics appropriate for this orally composed Arabic verse, an aesthetics that is built on-and tested on-close readings of a number of the poems. Drawing on the insights of contemporary literary theory, anthropology, and the history of religions, Stetkevych maintains that the poetry of the qasidah is ritualized in both form and function. She brings to bear an extensive body of lore, legend, and myth as she interprets individual themes and images with references to rites of passage and rituals of sacrifice. Her English translations of the poems under discussion convey the power and beauty of the originals, as well as a sense of their complex intertextuality and distinctive lexicon. The Mute Immortals Speak will be important for students and scholars in the fields of Middle Eastern literatures, Islamic studies, folklore, oral literature, and literary theory, and by anthropologists, comparatists, historians of religion, and medievalists. 410 0$aMyth and poetics. 606 $aRites and ceremonies in literature$2fast$3(OCoLC)fst01098231 606 $aQasidas$xThemes, motives$2fast$3(OCoLC)fst01084816 606 $aArabic poetry$2fast$3(OCoLC)fst00812533 606 $aArabic poetry$yTo 622$xHistory and criticism 606 $aRites and ceremonies in literature 606 $aQasidas$xThemes, motives 606 $aArabic poetry$yTo 622$xHistory and criticism 608 $aCriticism, interpretation, etc. 615 7$aRites and ceremonies in literature. 615 7$aQasidas$xThemes, motives. 615 7$aArabic poetry. 615 0$aArabic poetry$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aRites and ceremonies in literature. 615 0$aQasidas$xThemes, motives. 615 0$aArabic poetry$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a892/.71109 700 $aStetkevych$b Suzanne Pinckney$0660686 702 $aNagy$b Gregory$4ctb$4https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910820990103321 996 $aThe mute immortals speak$94050997 997 $aUNINA