The Arabian Epic: Volume 3, Texts: Heroic and Oral Story-Telling

by Malcolm C. Lyons

Book Overview

The hero cycles of Arabic belong to the literary tradition of The Arabian Nights and can be seen as the popular epics of their civilisation. The Arabian epic covers ten of the main representatives of this genre. Each of these has been developed through the processes of accretive oral story-telling by means of an accumulation of narrative and folklore motifs, many of which belong to what can be seen as a universal tradition. The work is published in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521017408
• ISBN13: 9780521017404
• Release Date: July 2005
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 672 Pages
• Weight: 2.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.7" x 9.6"