Heroic Poets, Poetic Heroes : The Ethnography of Performance in an Arabic Oral Epic Tradition /

An astonishingly rich oral epic that chronicles the early history of a Bedouin tribe, the Sirat Bani Hilal has been performed for almost a thousand years. In this ethnography of a contemporary community of professional poet-singers, Dwight F. Reynolds reveals how the epic tradition continues to prov...

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Main Author: Reynolds, Dwight F. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:In English.
Published: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018]
Series:Myth and Poetics
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