Arabic literary salons in the Islamic Middle Ages poetry, public performance, and the presentation of the past /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ali, Samer M.
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, c2010.
Series:Poetics of orality and literacy.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Literary salons : outlines of a topic. Literary salons : from ancient symposion to Arabic mujālasat
  • Adab principles of artistic speech in assembly
  • Poetry performance and the reinterpreting of tradition
  • The mujālasat as forum for reception. The poetics of sin and redemption : performing value and canonicity
  • Al-Buhṭurī's īwān kisrā ode: canonic value and folk literacy in the mujālasat
  • Singing Samarra (861-956) : poetry, reception, and the reproduction of literary value in historical narrative
  • Conclusion.