
The Arabian Epic: Volume 2, Analysis
Heroic and Oral Story-telling
M. C. Lyons(Author)
Cambridge University Press
Published on 20. July 1995
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Hardback
500 pages
978-0-521-47449-8 (ISBN)
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Description
The hero cycles of Arabic belong to the literary tradition of The Arabian Nights and can be seen as the popular epics of their civilisation. The Arabian epic covers ten of the main representatives of this genre. Each of these has been developed through the processes of accretive oral story-telling by means of an accumulation of narrative and folklore motifs, many of which belong to what can be seen as a universal tradition. The work is published in three volumes. The first volume introduces the background and the dimensions in which the cycles are set, while the second volume analyses their contents and the literary formulae used in their construction, as well as listing analogues found in other literatures. The epitomes surveyed in the final volume provide non-Arabists with a more immediate insight into the contents of the cycles, drawing attention to their narrative colouring and texture.
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"..offers a comparative narrative analysis and tabulation...." Stephen Belcher, Religious Studies ReviewMore details
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English
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Cambridge
United Kingdom
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Professional and scholarly
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Height: 256 mm
Width: 181 mm
Thickness: 30 mm
Weight
1175 gr
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978-0-521-47449-8 (9780521474498)
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Content
Introduction to volume two; 1. 'Ali al-Zaibag; 2. Sirat 'Antar; 3. Sirat al-Zahir Baibars; 4. Sirat Bani Hilal al-Kubra; 5. Taghribat Bani Hilal; 6. Qissat Abu Zaid al-Hilali wa'l-Na'isa; 7. Sirat al-Amira Dhat al Himma; 8. Firuz Shah; 9. Sirat Saif b. Dhi Yazan; 10. Sirat Saif al-Tijan; 11. Qissat al-Zir; Narrative index; Source references; Comparative index.