dc.contributor.author | Connelly, Bridget | eng |
dc.contributor.author | Massie, Henry | eng |
dc.date.issued | 1989-01 | eng |
dc.description.abstract | "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 based on geographic displacements. Narrators from Egypt to Tunisia and the Lake Chad area all construct their versions of the story cyclically around a basic morphology of: LACK -- DEPARTURE -- CONTRACT -- VIOLATION -- RESOLUTION (battle or trickery/victory or defeat) -- LACK LIQUIDATED or NEW LACK (which engenders a new geographic displacement, be it a return or a new departure) (see Connelly 1973, 1986; Ayoub 1982b)."--Opening paragraph. | eng |
dc.format.extent | 24 pages | eng |
dc.identifier.citation | Oral Tradition, 4/1-2 (1989): 101-24. | eng |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10355/64297 | |
dc.language | English | eng |
dc.rights | OpenAccess. | eng |
dc.rights.license | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 License. | eng |
dc.title | Epic Splitting: An Arab Folk Gloss on the Meaning of the Hero Pattern | eng |
dc.type | Article | eng |