Exploring Arab folk literature / Pierre Cachia.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cachia, Pierre, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Folk literature, Arabic--History and criticism.

Folk literature, Arabic.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxvii, 222 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The character and range of Arab folk literature are investigated by Pierre Cachia in this collection of his pioneering essays in the field.

Contents:

Arabic literatures, "elite" and "folk" : junctions and disjunctions

The Egyptian Mawwāl : its ancestry, its development, and its present forms

The Nahda's first stirrings of interest in Alf Layla

The career of Muṣtafā Ibrāhīm 'Ajāj : a giant of Egyptian popular literature

The prophet's shirt : three versions of an Egyptian narrative ballad

An uncommon use of nonsense verse in colloquial Arabic

An early example of narrative verse in colloquial Arabic

An incomplete Egyptian ballad on the 1956 War

An hounour crime with a difference

Pulp stories in the repertoire of Egyptian folk singers

Karam il-Yatīm

Of loose verse and masculine beauty

A Zajal on the Miʻrāj attributed to al-X̲ubārī

Two perspectives on the "other" in Arabic literature

Maltese : Arabic roots and sundry grafts

Social values reflected in Egyptian popular ballads

Folk themes in the works of Najīb Surūr

Elite treatment of honour crimes in Modern Egypt.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0-7486-5330-9

1-283-37008-5

9786613370082

0-7486-5405-4

OCLC:

818853412