Seers, saints and sinners : the oral tradition of Upper Egypt

1. Verfasser: Wickett, Elizabeth
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: London ; New York : I.B. Tauris ; New York : Distributed in the U.S. exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Umfang/Format: xvi, 229 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Schlagworte:
George, > Saint, > -303 > Folklore.
Mary, > Blessed Virgin, Saint > Folklore.
Sirat Bani Hilal.
Coptic Christian saints > Folklore.
Copts > Luxor > Folklore.
Egyptians > Egypt > Luxor > Folklore.
Folk poetry, Arabic > Translations into English.
Folk poetry, Arabic > Egypt > History and criticism.
Folklore > Egypt > Luxor.
Oral tradition > Egypt > Luxor.
Storytelling > Egypt > Luxor.
Tales > Egypt > Luxor.
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.

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