The thirsty sword : Sīrat ʻAntar and the Arabic popular epic / / Peter Heath

• Autore: Heath Peter <1949-2014.>
• Pubblicazione: Salt Lake City : , : University of Utah Press, , 1996; ©1996
• 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
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II