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Autore: | Heath Peter <1949-> |
Titolo: | The thirsty sword : Sirat Antar and the Arabic popular epic / / Peter Heath |
Pubblicazione: | Salt Lake City, : University of Utah Press, c1996 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (xx, 324 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina: | 892/.73 |
Soggetto topico: | Arabic literature |
Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-314) and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Intro -- Contents -- A Note on Transliteration and Dates -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The Modern Discove y of -- The History of Antara, Antar, -- The Narration of -- Literary Context and Literary History -- The Heroic Cycle -- of the Heroic Cycle: Compositional Principles -- Compositional Models and Description -- Compositional Models and Narrative Generation: The Battle Scene -- The Uses of History -- Di ections for Fu ther Research -- A Summary of -- in Manuscript -- and Print -- Introduction to the Topkap· Manuscript ( no. 1145) -- Lion Descriptions -- The Lion Fight Scene -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. |
Sommario/riassunto: | Explores the popular epic of Arabic storytelling by focusing on a particular example, The Life Story of 'Antar, purporting to recount the life of the famous pre-Islamic Arab poet and warrior. |
Titolo autorizzato: | The thirsty sword |
ISBN: | 1-60781-814-0 |
0-585-13273-9 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910838399703321 |
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