PRIČANJE PJESME I PJEVANJE PRIČE: NARATIVNI KARAKTER MUALLAKE Al-HARISA IBN HILIZZE
NARRATING THE POEM AND RECITING THE STORY: NARRATIVE CHARACTER OF AL-HARITH IBN HILLIZA’S MU‘ALLAQA

Summary/Abstract: This paper examines possible application of certain narratological approaches to the analysis of ancient Arab mu‘allaqa. The mu‘allaqa of the pre-Islamic poet al- Haris Ibn Hilizza (al-Ḥāriṯ Ibn Ḥilizza) was taken as an example. It is one of the seven golden Arabian odes, or the muallaqat. The first part of work deals with the genre definition of qasida as well as the issue of the relationship between narrative and lyricism of qasida. The main part of the paper analyses the narrative character of the qasida through the prism of sequentiality, that is, temporal articulation and connection of individual events and “narrative” sequences in the form of coherent order. Furthermore the mediacy is discussed which basically means selection and presentation of that order from a particular perspective. There are other issues discussed such as the relationship between “the lyrical I” and the communal voice, the congruence of voice and focalization, and the relationship of fictionality and factuality in this qasida.

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