| Autore |
Caton Steven Charles <1950->
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| Pubbl/distr/stampa |
[Place of publication not identified], : University of California Press, 1990
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| Descrizione fisica |
1 online resource (xv, 351 p., [6] p. of plates ) : ill.
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| Disciplina |
398.2/095332
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| Soggetto topico |
Folk poetry, Arabic - History and criticism - Yemen (Republic)
Languages & Literatures
Middle Eastern Languages & Literatures
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| ISBN |
0-520-91372-8
0-585-13539-8
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| Formato |
Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione |
eng
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| Nota di contenuto |
PART I. Background -- 1. Doing an Ethnography of Poetry -- 2. Gabyilah: Ideologies of Tribalism, Language, and Poetry -- 3. The Social Production of Poetry -- PART II. The System of Poetic Genres -- 4. The Bālah: Poem as Play -- 5. The Poetic Construction of Shelf -- 6. The Zāmil: Between Performance and Text-Utterance -- 7. Power, Poetry, and Persuasion -- 8. The Qaṣīdah: Individual Talent and the Cultural Tradition -- 9. Tribal Ideology, the State, and Communicative Practices -- CONCLUSION: Poetry as Cultural Practice -- APPENDIXES -- A. Yemeni Tribal Arabic Phonology -- B. A Linguistic Theory of Meter -- C. Transcription of the Sample Bālah Poem-- D. Transcription of the Sample Bālah Development Section-- E. Transcription of al-Gharsi's Poem-- F. Transcription of aṣ-Ṣūfī's Poem-- G. Transcription of al-Maʿlah's Poem
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| Record Nr. | UNISA-996247943803316 |
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"Peaks of Yemen I summon" : poetry as cultural practice in a North Yemeni tribe / / Steven C. Caton
