Praying Mantis in the Desert. The Najdi Poet Ibn Subayyil Consumed with Love for the Bedouin
Arabian Humanities, 2015 ʿAbdallah b. Subayyil (d. 1933) is the last great ghazal poet of the pre-oil era in Central Arabia. He was the headman of the small old town of Nifī. He is famous for his lively descriptions of the Bedouin tribes who would spend the summer at the wells ...
Paul Marcel Kurpershoek
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Benjamin Zephaniah’s dub poetry and its appeal to children: an ecocritical reading
Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, 2023 Dub poetry is a form of performance poetry that originated with Black poets in Jamaica, Britain, and Canada. It is accompanied by rhythmical accentuation and gesticulation while performing in front of the audience.
Alanoud Abdulaziz Alghanem
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Palestinian improvised-sung poetry : the genres of Ḥidā and Qarrādī : performance and transmission [PDF]
, 1989 The improvised-sung poetry of the Palestinians is a living tradition of oral poetry, extemporized impromptu in the colloquial Arabic of the Palestinians.
Sbait, Ḍirghām Ḥ.
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A War-song on Yoḥannəs IV against the Egyptians, recited by Ləğ Täfäri in Aksum, 1906
Studies in African Languages and Cultures, 2007 Oral tradition is, under many aspects, an important component of historiography. It is extremely rich and still to a large degree unexplored. It does not only consist of the orally transmitted memory of people who witnessed historical events, but also ...
Wolbert G. C. Smidt
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La représentation et la perception de la xenitia dans la poésie orale de l’île de Karpathos
Cahiers BalkaniquesThe exile of the Greek population is a reality which largely inspired the creation of popular songs from the demotic songs of the Byzantine era to the urban songs created from the end of the 19th century. The village of Olympos on the island of Karpathos
Mélanie Nittis
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When orature becomes literature: Somali oral poetry and folktales in Somali novels [PDF]
, 2012 The article discusses Somali literature, with particular focus given to the influence of Somali oral poetry and folk tales on modern novels. The difference between the concepts of orature and oral literature is examined, and the history of print and oral
Moolla, Fiona F.
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Constructing English in New Zealand: A report on a decade of reform [PDF]
, 2007 In 1991, the newly elected National Government of New Zealand set in train a major reform of the New Zealand national curriculum and, a little later, a major reform of the New Zealand qualifications system.
Locke, Terry
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Belonging in Ancient Greek Oral Tradition
Between, 2017 In the paper I will discuss the notion of belonging in Ancient Greek oral tradition. I will argue that oral literature, because of the specific nature of oral language, promotes belonging to a particular locus, community and culture.
Blaž Zabel
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From Oral Literature to Technauriture: What’s in a Name? [PDF]
, 2011 Russell H. Kaschula is Professor of African Language Studies and Head of the School of Languages at Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa. His doctoral research focussed on African literature, and his works of creative writing have received a ...
Kaschula, Russell, Mostert, Andre
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Mythological Names and dróttkvætt Formulae III: From Metric-Structural Type to Compositional System
Studia Metrica et Poetica, 2015 This article explores patterns of language use in oral poetry within a variety of semantic formula. Such a formula may vary its surface texture in relation to phonic demands of the metrical environment in which it is realised. This is the third part of a
- Frog
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