| Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: monographic
|
| Title Information: |
poetry, public performance, and the presentation of the past |
| Author: |
AliSamer M, |
| Secondary Intellectual Responsibility: |
Project Muse |
| Place of Publication: |
Notre Dame, Ind. |
| Published: |
University of Notre Dame Press; |
| Year of Publication: |
c2010 |
| Description: |
1 online resource (xi, 294 p.). |
| Series: |
Poetics of orality and literacy |
| Subject: |
Oral tradition - Islamic Empire - |
| Subject: |
Salons - Islamic Empire - |
| Subject: |
Arabic poetry - History and criticism - 750-1258 - |
| Subject: |
Islamic Empire - Intellectual life - |
| Online resource: |
http://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780268074654/ |
| Notes: |
Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--Indiana University |
| ISBN: |
9780268074654electronic bk. |
| ISBN: |
0268074658electronic bk. |
| ISBN: |
9780268020323pbk. |
| ISBN: |
0268020329pbk. |
| Content Note: |
Introduction -- Literary salons : outlines of a topic. Literary salons : from ancient symposion to Arabic mujälasat -- Adab principles ofartistic speech in assembly -- Poetry performance and the reinterpreting of tradition -- The mujälasat as forum for reception. The poetics of sin and redemption : performing value and canonicity -- Al-Buhturï's ïwän kisrä ode: canonic value and folk literacy in the mujälasat -- Singing Samarra (861-956) : poetry, reception, and the reproduction of literary value in historical narrative -- Conclusion |