Terra ridens, terra narrans : Festschrift zum 65. Geburtstag von Ulrich Marzolph / herausgegeben von Regina F. Bendix und Dorothy Noyes.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Marzolph, Ulrich.

Bendix, Regina.

Noyes, Dorothy.

Series:

Beiträge zur Kulturgeschichte des islamischen Orients ; Bd. 45.

Beiträge zur Kulturgeschichte des Islamischen Orients ; Band 45.1+2

Language:

English

French

German

Subjects (All):

Islamic countries--Humor.

Islamic countries.

Wit and humor.

Genre:

Festschriften.

Physical Description:

2 volumes : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

Dortmund : Verlag für Orientkunde, 2018.

Language Note:

Contents in English, with one contribution in French and one in German.

Contents:

A Marzolph nights' entertainment / Regina F. Bendix and Dorothy Noyes

I. Canonical texts and contexts : the 1001 nights and the Shahnameh

L'étonnante générosité des Mille et une nuits / Aboubakr Chaïbi

The tale of Hatim Ta'i's generosity after his death and its historic evolution / Baqer Qorbani Zarrin

Trickster jester : on humor, word play and laughter in the Arabian Nights / Wen-Chin Ouyang

In search of Zāl : from peri to old woman / Mehran Afshari

Visual and textual medieval humor in honor of femininity / Roxana Zenhari

II. Knowledge and wisdom in Islamic narrative

Al-Tanūkhī on the recovery of health and wealth / Bruce Fudge

Ibn Tufayl's philosophical novel Hayy ibn Yaqzan and the quest for enlightenment in classical Islam / Sebastian Günther

Traces of some old anecdotes in the works of 'Attār-e Nishāpuri / Pegah Khadish

III. Tale-types and their byways "A time to weep and a time to laugh" : swinging between the comic and the tragic in folk-narratives / Galit Hasan-Rokem

Tales of the dreaming man : Shakespeare, "The sleeper and the waker, " and world literature / Paulo Lemos Horta

"The enchanted pear tree" in Hispanic tradition / Maria Jesús Lacarra

Another locust's leg : folktale types, subtypes, "décor, " and meaning / Margaret A. Mills

IV. Tying down Nasreddin Hodja

Ambiguous jokes : Nasreddin Hoca, Afandi and folklore studies / Ingeborg Baldauf

"This is not our Hoca!" : repurposing, repackaging, and reappropriating Nasreddin Hoca / JoAnn Conrad

Nasreddin Hodja in Greek-speaking modern and contemporary contexts, or: a long stop-over for a great traveler / Marilena Papachristophorou

Volume 2. V. Humor in and out of context

The role of humor in the Bengali Chitrakar repertoire / Frank J. Korom

Satire in Tajik folk theater / Roshan Rahmoni Text und Kontext : Zur Bedeutung der Populär-Satire in Iran / Shahnaz R. Nadjmabadi

Al-Maqvim, Mohmal al-Taqvim, "Calendar Schmalendar." A satirical work from the Qajar era, Iran / Ali Boozari

Deep jokes from Boir Ahmad, Iran / Erika Friedl

The menial and the miniskirt / M. Omidsalar

Narrative monuments : Akbar-Birbal jokes / Sadhana Naithani

The supernatural and laughter : on the appropriate incongruity of legends and jokes / Ülo Valk

VI. From Orientalist to postcolonial rereadings

Laughing at the natives? : Orientalism in the comic mode / Robert Irwin

The tear-bottle quest : European perception of the Biblical Orient and Iranian Shiite ritual / Yuriko Yamanaka

Remediation and refiguration in Yousry Nasrallah's Sheherazade, tell me a story / Cristina Bacchilega

When Sheherazade meets Snow White : the politcs of frame play in Bill Willingham's 1001 nights of snowfall / Kimberly J. Lauhmoni Homo Hibernicus Rusticus revisited : Flann O'Brien's parody of national mythmaking / Máiréad Nic Craith and Ullrich Kockel

VII. Unsettling narratives

Childhood traumata and hero fantasies : diegetic autobiographical narration in films of Time Burton / Ingrid Tomkowiak

Changes in the traditional way of life in the Yuruk community in Macedonia : a case study / Elizabeta Koneska

No laughing matter : fairy tales and the 2016 US presidential election / Donald Haase.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9783936687453

3936687455

OCLC:

1043737209

Publisher Number:

9783936687453