Exploring Arab folk literature / / Pierre Cachia [[electronic resource]]

• Autore: Cachia Pierre
• 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
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II