Heroic poets, poetic heroes
Subtitle: the ethnography of performance in an Arabic oral epic tradition
By: Dwight Fletcher Reynolds.
Series: Myth and poetics
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Ithaca, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 246
Subjects: Sīrat Banī Hilāl; Ethnology -- Egypt; Epic poetry, Arabic -- Egypt; Folklore -- Egypt -- Performance; Oral tradition -- Egypt; Rites and ceremonies -- Egypt; Egypt -- Social life and customs
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-238) and index.