Pens, Swords, And the Springs of Art: The Oral Poetry Dueling of Palestinian Weddings in the Galilee (BRILL STUDIES IN MIDDLE EASTERN LITERATURES, 32) - Hardcover

Yaqub, Nadia G.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9004152598 ISBN 13: 9789004152595

Publisher: Brill Academic Pub, 2006

Synopsis

Offering an analysis of oral poetry dueling performed at traditional Palestinian weddings this book addresses poetry dueling as a performative and compositional device, and explores the complex linkages between this tradition and other genres of Arabic poetry.

About this title

About the Author:

Nadia G. Yaqub, Ph.D. (1999) in Near Eastern Studies, University of California, Berkeley, is an Assistant Professor of Arabic Language and Literature at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She has published numerous articles on Palestinian oral poetry and Arabic literature.

Review:

"Yaqub is a literary scholar thoroughly at home in the discourse of folklore, and her unifying and well-researched study with its extensive notes and bibliography is very satisfying because it breaks the taboo on folklore. She more than traces a connection; she explores a continuity. This is an original piece of research and a singular contribution to folkloristics and Arabic studies."

Ibrahim Muhawi, Western Folklore, 2010

About this edition

• Publisher: Brill Academic Pub
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 9004152598
• ISBN 13: 9789004152595
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 378