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oapen-20.500.12657-620992024-03-27T14:14:45Z Heroic Poets, Poetic Heroes Reynolds, Dwight F. Folklore, myths and legends Social and cultural anthropology Literature: history and criticism thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBG Popular beliefs and controversial knowledge::JBGB Folklore studies / Study of myth (mythology) thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropology::JHMC Social and cultural anthropology thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHG Middle Eastern history 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. 2023-03-29T15:50:26Z 2023-03-29T15:50:26Z 1995 book ONIX_20230329_9781501723223_85 9781501723223 9780801431746 9781501723216 9781501723230 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/62099 eng Myth and Poetics application/pdf application/epub+zip Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9781501723223.pdf 9781501723230.epub http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9780801431746/heroic-poets-poetic-heroes Cornell University Press Cornell University Press 10.7298/qqgc-cp46 10.7298/qqgc-cp46 06a447d4-1d09-460f-8b1d-3b4b09d64407 0314e571-4102-4526-b014-3ed8f2d6750a 9781501723223 9780801431746 9781501723216 9781501723230 Cornell University Press 128 Ithaca [...] Open Book Program National Endowment for the Humanities NEH open access
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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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