000			01942nam a2200313 a 4500
001			2011508322
003			DLC
005			20190729104725.0
008			120104s2011 stk b 000 0 eng
010			_a 2011508322
020			_a9780748640867 (hbk.)
020			_a074864086X (hbk.)
040			_aDLC _cDLC _dMiTN
042			_apcc
049			_aEY8Z
050	0	0	_aGR268.A73 _bC33 2011
100	1		_aCachia, Pierre.
245	1	0	_aExploring Arab folk literature / _cPierre Cachia.
260			_aEdinburgh : _bEdinburgh University Press, _c2011.
300			_axxvii, 222 p. ; _c24 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references.
505			_aPart I: Fact Finding; 1. Arabic Literatures, "Elite" and "Folk" - Junctions and Disjunctions; 2. The Egyptian Mawwal: its Ancestry, its Development, and its Present Forms; 3. The Nahda's first stirrings of interest in Alf Layla; 4. The Career of Mustafa Ibrahim 'Ajaj; Part II: Texts; 5. The Prophet's Shirt: three Versions of an Egyptian Narrative Ballad; 6. An Uncommon Use of Nonsense Verse in Colloquial Arabic; 7. An Early Example of Narrative Verse in Colloquial Arabic; 8. An Incomplete Egyptian Ballad on the 1956 War; 9. Three Versions of an Egyptian Narrative Ballad; 10. Pulp Stories in the Repertoire of Egyptian Folk Singers; 11. Karam il-Yatim; 12. Of Loose Verse and Masculine Beauty; 13. A Zajal on the Mi<raj Attributed to al-Xubari; Part III: Cultural and Social Implications; 14. Two Perspectives on the 'Other' in Arabic Folk Literature; 15. Maltese: Arabic Roots and Sundry Grafts; 16. Social Values Reflected in Egyptian Popular Ballads; 17. Folk Themes in the Works of Najib Surur; 18. Elite Treatments of Honour Crimes in Modern Egypt.
650		0	_aFolk literature, Arabic _xHistory and criticism.
650		0	_aArabs _xFolklore.
948			_au352127
949			_aGR268 .A73 C33 2011 _wLC _c1 _hEY8Z _i33039001210680
596			_a1
903			_a22609
999			_c22609 _d22609