Seers, saints and sinners : the oral tradition of Upper Egypt
| 1. Verfasser: |
Wickett, Elizabeth
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| Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
London ; New York :
I.B. Tauris ; New York : Distributed in the U.S. exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan,
2012.
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| Umfang/Format: |
xvi, 229 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: | 1-78076-053-1 9781780760537 |
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Inhaltsangabe:
- Tales from the Egyptian epic 'sirat bani hilal'. The tale of Aziza and Yunis. Egyptian erotica : ancient precursors and Bakhtin's concept of the adventure chronotope ; Towards an ethnopoetics of Egyptian sira performance. The tale of Khadra al-Sharifa and the miraculous conception of Abu Zayd al-Hilali. Epic as ethnography : gender and rites of passage among the Bani Hilal
- Coptic Tales. The tale of St. George and the dragon. The egyptian St. George : intertextuality and etiological myth in an un Upper Egyptian saint's tale ; The tale of Adam and Eve. Egyptian tales of Adam and eve : gender, original sin and the logic of redemption
- Egyptian conversion tales. Ancient contexts, reversions and converions : Messianic tales of the miraculous. The praise poem of Maimuna ; The tale of Theodore, the warrior saint.
