Disputation Literature in the Near East and Beyond / edited by Enrique Jiménez and Catherine Mittermayer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jiménez, Enrique, 1985- editor.

Mittermayer, Catherine, editor.

Walter de Gruyter & Co.

J. Fithian Tatem Memorial Fund.

Series:

Studies in ancient Near Eastern records ; v. 25.

Studies in Ancient Near Eastern Records ; volume 25

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Debate poetry--History and criticism.

Debate poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vii, 470 pages).

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Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2020]

[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [2020]

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

text file

PDF

Contents:

Frontmatter

Table of Contents

1. Introduction

2. The Sumerian Precedence Debates

3. An Introduction to the Sumerian School Disputes

4. "She was dumbstruck and took it to heart"

5. The Tamarisk, the Date-Palm and the King

6. Antiques in the King's Libraries

7. La "fable" égyptienne du Corps et de la Tête (tablette Turin CG 58004)

8. Opposing Voices in Ancient Egyptian Literature

9. Those Who Cannot Do, Reign?

10. Disputations in Syriac Literature

11. The Debate of Spring and Autumn in Arabic Literature

12. Night and Day in Islamicate Literary Disputation

13. Disputation Poems in Medieval Hebrew Literature in Spain

14. Debate in Iranian Literary Culture

15. The Rhetoric of Persian Verbal Contests

16. A Survey of Disputation Texts in Ottoman Literature

17. Dispute Poems in Armenian

18. Tradition and Innovation in the Early Medieval Latin Debates

19. Owls, Nightingales, Cuckoos and Other Feathered Disputants

20. De la dispute des clercs au dialogue des acteurs

21. Neo-Aramaic Dialogue and Dispute Poems

22. Modern Vernacular Disputation Poems from Bahrain and the Wider Gulf

23. Ludic Disputations in the East-Asian Cultural Sphere

Index of Contestants

Notes:

Electronic reproduction. Berlin Available via World Wide Web.

Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 08, 2021).

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the J. Fithian Tatem Memorial Fund.

Other Format:

Print version: Disputation Literature in the Near East and Beyond /.

ISBN:

9781501510274

1501510274

9781501510212

1501510215

Publisher Number:

99990179202

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.