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Seers, saints and sinners : the oral tradition of Upper Egypt
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Seers, saints and sinners : the oral tradition of Upper Egypt

Elizabeth Wickett

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Tales from the Egyptian epic 'sīrat banī hilāl'. The tale of ʿAzī̄za and Yūnis. Egyptian erotica : ancient precursors and Bakhtin's concept of the adventure chronotope ; Towards an ethnopoetics of Egyptian sīra performance. The tale of Khadra al-Sharīfa and the miraculous conception of Abu Zayd al-Hilālī. Epic as ethnography : gender and rites of passage among the Banī Hilāl
Coptic Tales. The tale of St. George and the dragon. The egyptian St. George : intertextuality and etiological myth in an un Upper Egyptian saint's tale ; The tale of Adam and Eve. Egyptian tales of Adam and eve : gender, original sin and the logic of redemption
Egyptian conversion tales. Ancient contexts, reversions and converions : Messianic tales of the miraculous. The praise poem of Maimūna ; The tale of Theodore, the warrior saint.

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Seers, saints and sinners : the oral tradition of Upper Egypt by Elizabeth Wickett. ISBN 9781780760537. Published by I.B. Tauris New York in 2012. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.

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