TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cachia,Pierre
TI  - Exploring Arab folk literature
SN  - 9780748640867 (hbk.)
AV  - GR268.A73 C33 2011
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Edinburgh
PB  - Edinburgh University Press
KW  - Folk literature, Arabic
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Arabs
KW  - Folklore
N1  - Includes bibliographical references; Part I: Fact Finding; 1. Arabic Literatures, "Elite" and "Folk" - Junctions and Disjunctions; 2. The Egyptian Mawwal: its Ancestry, its Development, and its Present Forms; 3. The Nahda's first stirrings of interest in Alf Layla; 4. The Career of Mustafa Ibrahim 'Ajaj; Part II: Texts; 5. The Prophet's Shirt: three Versions of an Egyptian Narrative Ballad; 6. An Uncommon Use of Nonsense Verse in Colloquial Arabic; 7. An Early Example of Narrative Verse in Colloquial Arabic; 8. An Incomplete Egyptian Ballad on the 1956 War; 9. Three Versions of an Egyptian Narrative Ballad; 10. Pulp Stories in the Repertoire of Egyptian Folk Singers; 11. Karam il-Yatim; 12. Of Loose Verse and Masculine Beauty; 13. A Zajal on the Mi<raj Attributed to al-Xubari; Part III: Cultural and Social Implications; 14. Two Perspectives on the 'Other' in Arabic Folk Literature; 15. Maltese: Arabic Roots and Sundry Grafts; 16. Social Values Reflected in Egyptian Popular Ballads; 17. Folk Themes in the Works of Najib Surur; 18. Elite Treatments of Honour Crimes in Modern Egypt
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