• Epic Splitting: An Arab Folk Gloss on the Meaning of the Hero Pattern 

    Connelly, Bridget; Massie, Henry (1989-01)
    "Epic narrative typically spells out departures and arrivals very clearly (see Bowra 1952:179 ff). The Arabic migration epic Sīrat Banī Hilāl, in its many different cultural transformations and retellings, has a structure ...