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Arab folklore : a handbook / Dwight F. Reynolds.
Series: Greenwood folklore handbooksPublication details: Westport, CT : Greenwood Press, 2007.Description: xiv, 258 p. : ill., map ; 25 cmISBN:- 9780313333118 (hbk.) :
- 0313333114 (hbk.) :
- GR268.A73 R49 2007
Incomplete contents:
Introduction -- Who are the Arabs -- Further readings on Arab culture and history -- Definitions and classifications -- Examples and texts -- Verbal arts -- Musical arts -- Material arts -- Customs and traditions -- Further readings on Arabic oral poetry -- Further readings about Arabic folk narratives -- Further readings on Arabic proverbs -- Further readings on controversial genres -- Further readings on Arab folk music -- Further readings on Arab material folk arts -- Further readings on Arab folk customs and traditions -- Scholarship and approaches -- The historical-geographic method -- Structuralism -- Functionalism -- Folklore in context -- Performance studies -- Oral composition in performance -- Contemporary approaches -- Contexts -- Orality in early Arab culture -- From oral to written: folklore in medieval Arabic literature -- Folklore in modern Arab literature and cinema.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-245) and index.
Introduction -- Who are the Arabs -- Further readings on Arab culture and history -- Definitions and classifications -- Examples and texts -- Verbal arts -- Musical arts -- Material arts -- Customs and traditions -- Further readings on Arabic oral poetry -- Further readings about Arabic folk narratives -- Further readings on Arabic proverbs -- Further readings on controversial genres -- Further readings on Arab folk music -- Further readings on Arab material folk arts -- Further readings on Arab folk customs and traditions -- Scholarship and approaches -- The historical-geographic method -- Structuralism -- Functionalism -- Folklore in context -- Performance studies -- Oral composition in performance -- Contemporary approaches -- Contexts -- Orality in early Arab culture -- From oral to written: folklore in medieval Arabic literature -- Folklore in modern Arab literature and cinema.
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