សាកលវិទ្យាល័យ ប៊ែលធី អន្តរជាតិ

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Heroic Poets, Poetic Heroes

Author

Reynolds, Dwight F.

Year

1995

Publisher

Cornell University Press

Type

BOOK

Category

History

Language

English

Pages

267

ISBN

978-1-50172-322-3

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09-Sep-2024

Keywords

SOCIAL SCIENCE / Folklore & Mythology;SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural;LITERARY CRITICISM / Middle Eastern

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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 provide a context for social interaction and commentary. Reynolds’s account is based on performances in the northern Egyptian village in which he studied as an apprentice to a master epic-singer. Reynolds explains in detail the narrative structure of the Sirat Bani Hilal as well as the tradition of epic singing. He sees both living epic poets and fictional epic heroes as figures engaged in an ongoing dialogue with audiences concerning such vital issues as ethnicity, religious orientation, codes of behavior, gender roles, and social hierarchies.

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