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Reynolds, Dwight Fletcher, 1956-

Title Heroic poets, poetic heroes : the ethnography of performance in an Arabic oral epic tradition / Dwight Fletcher Reynolds.

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Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1995.

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Description	1 online resource (267 pages).
Series	Myth and Poetics Ser.
	Myth and Poetics Ser.
Note	Description based upon print version of record.
Contents	Heroic Poets, Poetic Heroes; Contents; List of Illustrations; Foreword; Preface; Notes on Transcription and Transliteration; Introduction: The Tradition; Part One: The Ethnography of a Poetic Tradition; 1. The Village; 2. Poets Inside and Outside the Epic; 3 . The Economy of Poetic Style; Part Two: Textual and Performance Strategies in the Sahra; 4. The Interplay of Genres; 5 . The Sahra a s Social Interaction; Conclusion: Epic Text and Context; Appendix: Texts in Transliteration; Works Cited; Index
Subject	Sīrat Banī Hilāl.
	Ethnology -- Egypt.
	Epic poetry, Arabic -- Egypt -- History and criticism.
	Folklore -- Performance -- Egypt.
	Oral tradition -- Egypt.
	Rites and ceremonies -- Egypt.
	Egypt -- Social life and customs.
Other Form:	Print version: Reynolds, Dwight F. Heroic Poets, Poetic Heroes : The Ethnography of Performance in an Arabic Oral Epic Tradition Ithaca : Cornell University Press,c2018 9781501723230
ISBN	9781501723223 (electronic bk.)
	1501723227 (electronic bk.)

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