Heroic Poets Poetic Heroes

Author : Dwight F. Reynolds
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501723223

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Heroic Poets, Poetic Heroes by Dwight F. Reynolds Pdf

An astonishingly rich oral epic that chronicles the early history of a Bedouin tribe, the Sirat Bani Hilal has been performed for almost a thousand years. In this ethnography of a contemporary community of professional poet-singers, Dwight F. Reynolds reveals how the epic tradition continues to provide a context for social interaction and commentary. Reynolds’s account is based on performances in the northern Egyptian village in which he studied as an apprentice to a master epic-singer. Reynolds explains in detail the narrative structure of the Sirat Bani Hilal as well as the tradition of epic singing. He sees both living epic poets and fictional epic heroes as figures engaged in an ongoing dialogue with audiences concerning such vital issues as ethnicity, religious orientation, codes of behavior, gender roles, and social hierarchies.

Author : Dwight Fletcher Reynolds
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Banī Hilāl (Egypt)
ISBN : 0801482259

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Heroic Poets, Poetic Heroes by Dwight Fletcher Reynolds Pdf

Author : Dwight Fletcher Reynolds
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:786486842

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Heroic Poets, Poetic Heroes by Dwight Fletcher Reynolds Pdf

Si rat Bani Hilal, the oral epic of the Bani Hilal tribe, recounts the 10th-cent ury migration of this Bedouin tribe from their homeland in the Arabian peninsula to North Africa, their conquest of the region of Ifri qiya, and their eventual defeat at the hands of the Moroccan Almohad dynasty in the mid-12th century. The se historical events have given rise to a folk narrative tradition found through out the Arab world. This dissertation focuses on the social life of this epic-si nging tradition within a single village, one which is home to the largest commun ity of hereditary epic poets known in the Arab world. The regional renown of thi s community of poets, and their social status as ghajar or Gypsies, sets into sh arp relief many of the social tensions which surround the role of epic poet in r ural Egyptian society. The dissertation is divided into three parts: (1) The Eth nography of a Poetic Tradition, (2) Composition, and (3) Textual and Performance Strategies. The first section presents a general ethnographic portrait of the v illage, followed by a detailed examination of the epic poet community and their relationship to the larger society in which they live. The implications of this relationship are then traced through various traditional contexts for epic-singi ng, the story of the epic itself, and recurring structures of social interaction observed in epic performances. The second section addresses the questions of ap prenticeship, transmission, and oral-formulaic composition; a several month peri od of apprenticeship was undertaken by the author in conducting this research. F inally, an examination of the epic as frame for social interaction and criticism is presented through the analysis of performance texts from a single context, t he sahra, or private evening gathering. The figures of (living) epic poets and ( fictional) epic heroes are presented as engaged in an on-going dialogue concerni ng honor, social status, and manhood, represented not only through the narrative of the epic, but also in the parallel 'ways of speaking' of poets and heroes.

Author : Joseph Falaky Nagy,Leslie Jones
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015060861260

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Heroic Poets and Poetic Heroes in Celtic Tradition by Joseph Falaky Nagy,Leslie Jones Pdf

This volume, a double issue of the CSANA Yearbook, containing articles from some of the leading scholars in Irish, Welsh, and medieval studies, honors Patrick K. Ford, the retiring Margaret Brooks Robinson Professor of Celtic Languages and Literatures at Harvard University, and a founding member of the Celtic Studies Association of North America.

Author : Robert Auty
Publisher : MHRA
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Epic poetry
ISBN : 0900547723

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Traditions of Heroic and Epic Poetry: The traditions by Robert Auty Pdf

Author : Madeleine Callaghan
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2019-02-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781783088980

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The Poet-Hero in the Work of Byron and Shelley by Madeleine Callaghan Pdf

Byron’s and Shelley’s experimentation with the possibilities and pitfalls of poetic heroism unites their work. The Poet-Hero in the Work of Byron and Shelley traces the evolution of the poet-hero in the work of both poets, revealing that the struggle to find words adequate to the poet’s imaginative vision and historical circumstance is their central poetic achievement. Madeleine Callaghan explores the different types of poetic heroism that evolve in Byron’s and Shelley’s poetry and drama. Both poets experiment with, challenge and embrace a variety of poetic forms and genres, and this book discusses such generic exploration in the light of their developing versions of the poet-hero. The heroism of the poet, as an idea, an ideal and an illusion, undergoes many different incarnations and definitions as both poets shape distinctive and changing conceptions of the hero throughout their careers.

Author : Torquato Tasso
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015002160771

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Discourses on the Heroic Poem by Torquato Tasso Pdf

Author : Gregory Nagy
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 752 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013-02-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780674075443

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The Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours by Gregory Nagy Pdf

The ancient Greeks’ concept of “the hero” was very different from what we understand by the term today. In 24 installments, based on the Harvard course Gregory Nagy has taught and refined since the 1970s, The Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours explores civilization’s roots in Classical literature, a lineage that continues to challenge and inspire us.

Author : Madeleine Callaghan
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019-02-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781783088997

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The Poet-Hero in the Work of Byron and Shelley by Madeleine Callaghan Pdf

Byron’s and Shelley’s experimentation with the possibilities and pitfalls of poetic heroism unites their work. The Poet-Hero in the Work of Byron and Shelley traces the evolution of the poet-hero in the work of both poets, revealing that the struggle to find words adequate to the poet’s imaginative vision and historical circumstance is their central poetic achievement. Madeleine Callaghan explores the different types of poetic heroism that evolve in Byron’s and Shelley’s poetry and drama. Both poets experiment with, challenge and embrace a variety of poetic forms and genres, and this book discusses such generic exploration in the light of their developing versions of the poet-hero. The heroism of the poet, as an idea, an ideal and an illusion, undergoes many different incarnations and definitions as both poets shape distinctive and changing conceptions of the hero throughout their careers.

Author : Philostratus (the Athenian)
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9004127011

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On Heroes by Philostratus (the Athenian) Pdf

This English translation, with introduction and notes, an extensive glossary, maps, and topical bibliographies, explores religious authority and revealed knowledge and is indispensable for the study of Homer, heroes, literature, religion, and culture in the Roman Empire and Late Antiquity. Paperback edition is available from the Society of Biblical Literature (www.sbl-site.org).

Author : Jennifer K. Berenson Maclean,Ellen Bradshaw Aitken
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004130944

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Philostratus's Heroikos by Jennifer K. Berenson Maclean,Ellen Bradshaw Aitken Pdf

This multidimensional collection of essays explores the interrelation of religion, cultural identity, politics, literature, myth, and memory during the Roman Empire by focusing on the cultural dynamics embedded in and surrounding Philostratus s Heroikos, an early third-century C.E. dialogue about Homer and the heroes of the Trojan War. The essays focus on ritual and literary dimensions of hero cult; cultural and community identity reflected in the Heroikos and in early Christianity; and the cultural, literary, and political turn toward heroes in the negotiation of difference, particularly with those outside the Roman Empire. Contributors to this volume include classicists, archaeologists, ancient historians, and scholars of early Christianity: Ellen Bradshaw Aitken, Susan E. Alcock, Hans Dieter Betz, Alain Blomart, Walter Burkert, Casey Dué, Simone Follet, Sidney H. Griffith, Jackson P. Hershbell, Christopher Jones, Jennifer K. Berenson Maclean, Francesca Mestre, Gregory Nagy, Corinne Ondine Pache, Jeffrey Rusten, M. Rahim Shayegan, James C. Skedros, and Tim Whitmarsh.Paperback edition is available from the Society of Biblical Literature (www.sbl-site.org).

Author : Cecil Maurice Bowra
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Epic poetry
ISBN : UCSC:32106014574005

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Heroic Poetry by Cecil Maurice Bowra Pdf

Author : Ann Dooley,Teaches at Celtic Studies Programme Ann Dooley
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780802038326

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Playing the Hero by Ann Dooley,Teaches at Celtic Studies Programme Ann Dooley Pdf

Playing the Hero is a unique example of more contemporary literary methodologies – post-structuralist, feminist, historicist and beyond – being used to illuminate the Irish saga world.

Author : Thomas Carlyle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1872
Category : Hero worship
ISBN : KBNL:KBNL03000317851

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On Heroes, Hero-worship and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle Pdf

Author : Greenfield,
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1989-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780826443403

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Hero and Exile by Greenfield, Pdf

After a distinguished career as a teacher, scholar, bibliographer and literary critic, Stanley Brian Greenfield, Professor of English at the University of Oregon, one of the founders of the annual Anglo-Saxon England and of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists, died in 1987. He wrote primarily on Anglo-Saxon topics as well as later English poetry. He deeply explored the Old English poetic corpus, pointing out important meanings and qualities in insightful and sensitive readings. Hero and Exile brings together some of his most important essays, divided into three sections - Beowulfian Studies, The Old English Elegies and The Theme of Exile - attesting to his long and fruitful engagement with Old English literature.