Praise of the Prophet and Praise of Self: Sīrat Banī Hilāl and Epic Narrative in Performance.
How does an epic begin in performance and in narration? Questions surrounding the beginning of an Arab oral epic performance differ from those surrounding the origins of the text. This essay explores several levels of beginning in the Sīrat Banī Hilāl epic, a cycle of heroic tales recited throughout...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Arabic Literature Vol. 49; no. 1/2; pp. 50 - 78 |
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Brill Academic Publishers
2018
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