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The Arabian Epic: Volume 1, Introduction: Heroic and Oral Story-Telling

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The Arabian Epic: Volume 1, Introduction: Heroic and Oral Story-telling - Lyons, M. C.
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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 seen as a universal tradition. The work is published in three volumes. The first volume introduces the background and the ...

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The Arabian Epic: Volume 1, Introduction: Heroic and Oral Story-telling 2005, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9780521017381

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The Arabian Epic: Volume 1, Introduction: Heroic and Oral Story-telling 1995, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9780521474283

Hardcover