Arabic literary salons in the Islamic Middle Ages [electronic resource] : poetry, public performance, and the presentation of the past / Samer M. Ali.
Series: Poetics of orality and literacyc2010Description: xi, 294 pISBN:- 9780268020323 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0268020329 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 9780268074654 (e-book)
- 892.7/13409 22
- PJ7553 .A55 2010eb
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Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--Indiana University.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Literary salons : outlines of a topic. Literary salons : from ancient symposion to Arabic mujmacralasat -- Adab principles of artistic speech in assembly -- Poetry performance and the reinterpreting of tradition -- The mujmacralasat as forum for reception. The poetics of sin and redemption : performing value and canonicity -- Al-Buhdotbturmacri's macriwmacran kisrmacra ode: canonic value and folk literacy in the mujmacralasat -- Singing Samarra (861-956) : poetry, reception, and the reproduction of literary value in historical narrative -- Conclusion.
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