The Arabian Epic 3 Volume Hardback Set: Heroic and Oral Storytelling
Book 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 eleven 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 ... More
Book Information
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Binding | Hardcover |
Reading Level | Uncategorized |
# of Pages | 350 |
ISBN-10 | 0521483549 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0521483544 |
Publication Date | 10/27/1995 |
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