Heroic Poets, Poetic Heroes The Ethnography of Performance in an Arabic Oral Epic Tradition |
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| Author:
| Reynolds, Dwight F. |
| Series title: | Myth and Poetics Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8014-3174-6 |
| Publication Date: | May 1995 |
| Publisher: | Cornell University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | AUD $130.00 |
Book Description:
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An astonishingly rich oral epic that chronicles the early history of a Bedouin tribe, the Srat Ban Hill has been performed for almost a thousand years. In this ethnography of a contemporary community of professional poet-singers, Dwight F. Reynolds...
An astonishingly rich oral epic that chronicles the early history of a Bedouin tribe, the Srat Ban Hill has been performed for almost a thousand years. In this ethnography of a contemporary community of professional poet-singers, Dwight F. Reynolds...