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1 online resource (355 pages) |
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Myth and Poetics Ser |
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Myth and Poetics Ser
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| Contents |
Cover; THE MUTE IMMORTALS SPEAK; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Foreword; Preface; PART ONE: PRESENTING THE RITUAL PARADIGM; 1 Voicing the Mute Immortals: The Muʿallaqah of Labīd and the Rite of Passage; 2 Eating the Dead / The Dead Eating: Blood Vengeance as Sacrifice; PART TWO: THE PARADIGM OF PASSAGE MANQUÉ; 3 Taʿabbaṭa Sharran and Oedipus: A Paradigm of Passage Manqué; 4 Archetype and Attribution: Al-Shanfarā and the Lāmiyyat al-ʿArab; PART THREE: ORALITY AND GENDER IN THE ELEGY; 5 The Obligations and Poetics of Gender: Women's Elegy and Blood Vengeance |
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6 Memory Inflamed: Muhalhil ibn Rabīʿah and the War of al-BasūsPART FOUR: THE MASTER POEM; 7 Regicide and Retribution: The Muʿallaqah of Imruʼ al-Qays; Appendix of Arabic Texts; Works Cited; Index |
| Summary |
The Mute Immortals Speak will be important for students and scholars in the fields of Middle Eastern literatures, Islamic studies, folklore, oral literature .. |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Qasidas -- Themes, motives
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Arabic poetry -- To 622 -- History and criticism
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Rites and ceremonies in literature.
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Arabic poetry.
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Qasidas -- Themes, motives.
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Rites and ceremonies in literature.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781501720178 |
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1501720171 |
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