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...

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Published in:	Journal of Arabic Literature Vol. 49; no. 1/2; pp. 50 - 78
Main Author:	Slyomovics, Susan
Format:	Article
Published:	Brill Academic Publishers 2018
Subjects:	Arabic literature Arabic language Translating & interpreting Arabic fiction Poetics Epic poetry English translations of fiction
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