Read online Helen Blatherwick - Brill Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures: Prophets, Gods and Kings in <i>Srat Sayf Ibn Dh Yazan</i> : An Intertextual Reading of an Egyptian Popular Epic 38 FB2, DJV, MOBI
9789004314795 9004314792 This book is a literary, intertextual study of an Egyptian popular epic. In this innovative study, Helen Blatherwick investigates how various sources, including Islamic qi a al-anbiy ( tales of the prophets ), Pharaonic, Graeco-Roman and Coptic Egyptian myths and narratives, and recensions of the Alexander Romance function as intertexts within "S rat Sayf." Blatherwick argues that these intertexts are deployed as narrative devices which are readily recognisable to the story's audience, and that they are significant carriers of meaning and theme. Crucially, these intertexts also interact within "S rat Sayf" to bring a conceptual continuity to its discussion of kingship and society that stretches from this late-medieval epic back to ancient Egyptian narratives."
9789004314795 9004314792 This book is a literary, intertextual study of an Egyptian popular epic. In this innovative study, Helen Blatherwick investigates how various sources, including Islamic qi a al-anbiy ( tales of the prophets ), Pharaonic, Graeco-Roman and Coptic Egyptian myths and narratives, and recensions of the Alexander Romance function as intertexts within "S rat Sayf." Blatherwick argues that these intertexts are deployed as narrative devices which are readily recognisable to the story's audience, and that they are significant carriers of meaning and theme. Crucially, these intertexts also interact within "S rat Sayf" to bring a conceptual continuity to its discussion of kingship and society that stretches from this late-medieval epic back to ancient Egyptian narratives."