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Autore: |
Cachia Pierre
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Titolo: |
Exploring Arab folk literature / / Pierre Cachia [[electronic resource]]
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Pubblicazione: | Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , 2011 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (xxvii, 222 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
Disciplina: | 398.2089927 |
Soggetto topico: | Folk literature, Arabic - History and criticism |
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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Exploring Arab folk literature ![]() |
ISBN: | 0-7486-5330-9 |
1-283-37008-5 | |
9786613370082 | |
0-7486-5405-4 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910457911303321 |
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