Oral narration in Iranian cultures / edited by Maryam Nourzaei, Carina Jahani and Agnes Korn.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Nourzaei, Maryam, 1979- editor.

Jahani, Carina, editor.

Korn, Agnes, editor.

Series:

Beiträge zur Iranistik ; Bd. 48.

Beiträge zur Iranistik ; Band 48

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Folk literature--History and criticism--Congresses.

Iranian literature--History and criticism--Congresses.

Oral tradition--Iran--Congresses.

Folk literature.

Iranian literature.

Oral tradition.

Iran.

Genre:

Literary criticism

Conference papers and proceedings.

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Literary criticism.

Physical Description:

198 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Wiesbaden : Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, 2022.

Summary:

This volume presents papers demonstrating the current state of research on oral traditions among different groups in the Iranian-speaking cultural sphere. The articles offer from a variety of perspectives, encouraging the exchange of ideas between different academic disciplines such as anthropology, sociology, linguistics, literature, religious studies and folklore studies concerning methods and models applied to studies of oral traditions in Iranian languages and cultures. In the introductory part, Bo Utas discusses the use of multiple languages and diverse registers, comparing his father's native Estonian-Swedish village in Ukraine to parallels in the Iranian sphere, and Ulrich Marzolph presents a survey of recent research on oral traditions in Iran and the challenges it currently faces. The second part studies the interplay of written and oral patterns of text production and transmission connected to the Shāhnāma and its literary and narrative traditions. Carl Erixon examines passages referring to the sun, moon and stars that, he argues, represent poetic formulae with close parallels in ancient Indo-European languages. Kumiko Yamamoto applies a model developed to study oral traits in written text to a version of the Barzūnāma found in an unpublished manuscript at the French national library, and Julia Rubanovich studies the perception and representation of the written text in the Iskandarnāma and the Dārābnāma. Margaret Mills looks at the relationship of oral narrative performances from different genres in Afghanistan to written Persian texts.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Other Format:

e-book version

ISBN:

9783752006407

3752006404

OCLC:

1349332736

Publisher Number:

9783752006407