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Heroic Poets, Poetic Heroes: The Ethnography of Performance in an Arabic Oral Epic Tradition - Myth and Poetics Dwight F. Reynolds
Heroic Poets, Poetic Heroes: The Ethnography of Performance in an Arabic Oral Epic Tradition - Myth and Poetics
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...
128 pages
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | May 11, 1995 |
| ISBN13 | 9780801431746 |
| Publishers | Cornell University Press |
| Pages | 128 |
| Dimensions | 162 × 235 × 23 mm · 598 g |