Ex Oriente Fabula Exploring The Narrative Culture Of The Islamic Near And Middle East
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Ex Oriente Fabula Exploring The Narrative Culture Of The Islamic Near And Middle East
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Author : Ulrich Marzolph
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006
Ex Oriente Fabula Exploring The Narrative Culture Of The Islamic Near And Middle East written by Ulrich Marzolph and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Islamic literature categories.
Early Islamic Iran
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Author : Edmund Herzig
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2011-11-08
Early Islamic Iran written by Edmund Herzig and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-11-08 with History categories.
How did Iran remain distinctively Iranian in the centuries which followed the Arab Conquest? How did it retain its cultural distinctiveness after the displacement of Zoroastrianism - state religion of the Persian empire - by Islam? This latest volume in "The Idea of Iran" series traces that critical moment in Iranian history which followed the transformation of ancient traditions during the country's conversion and initial Islamic period. Distinguished contributors (who include the late Oleg Grabar, Roy Mottahedeh, Alan Williams and Said Amir Arjomand) discuss, from a variety of literary, artistic, religious and cultural perspectives, the years around the end of the first millennium CE, when the political strength of the 'Abbasid Caliphate was on the wane, and when the eastern lands of the Islamic empire began to be take on a fresh 'Persianate' or 'Perso-Islamic' character. One of the paradoxes of this era is that the establishment throughout the eastern Islamic territories of new Turkish dynasties coincided with the genesis and spread, into Central and South Asia, of vibrant new Persian language and literatures. Exploring the nature of this paradox, separate chapters engage with ideas of kingship, authority and identity and their fascinating expression through the written word, architecture and the visual arts.
Transgressive Tales
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Author : Kay Turner
language : en
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Release Date : 2012-10-15
Transgressive Tales written by Kay Turner and has been published by Wayne State University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
The stories in the Grimm brothers' Kinder- und Hausmärchen (Children's and Household Tales), first published in 1812 and 1815, have come to define academic and popular understandings of the fairy tale genre. Yet over a period of forty years, the brothers, especially Wilhelm, revised, edited, sanitized, and bowdlerized the tales, publishing the seventh and final edition in 1857 with many of the sexual implications removed. However, the contributors in Transgressive Tales: Queering the Grimms demonstrate that the Grimms and other collectors paid less attention to ridding the tales of non-heterosexual implications and that, in fact, the Grimms' tales are rich with queer possibilities. Editors Kay Turner and Pauline Greenhill introduce the volume with an overview of the tales' literary and interpretive history, surveying their queerness in terms of not just sex, gender and sexuality, but also issues of marginalization, oddity, and not fitting into society. In three thematic sections, contributors then consider a range of tales and their queer themes. In Faux Femininities, essays explore female characters, and their relationships and feminine representation in the tales. Contributors to Revising Rewritings consider queer elements in rewritings of the Grimms' tales, including Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber, Jeanette Winterson's Twelve Dancing Princesses, and contemporary reinterpretations of both "Snow White" and "Snow White and Rose Red." Contributors in the final section, Queering the Tales, consider queer elements in some of the Grimms' original tales and explore intriguing issues of gender, biology, patriarchy, and transgression. With the variety of unique perspectives in Transgressive Tales, readers will find new appreciation for the lasting power of the fairy-tale genre. Scholars of fairy-tale studies and gender and sexuality studies will enjoy this thought-provoking volume.
Magic Tales And Fairy Tale Magic
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Author : R. Bottigheimer
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2014-07-01
Magic Tales And Fairy Tale Magic written by R. Bottigheimer and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-01 with Religion categories.
This book examines magic's generally maleficent effect on humans from ancient Egypt through the Middle Ages, including tales from classical mythology, Jewish, Christian, and Muslim cultures. It shows that certain magical motifs lived on from age to age, but that it took until the Italian Renaissance for magic tales to become fairy tales.
The Folktale Of Jews From Iran Central Asia And Afghanistan
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Author : Sarah Sorour Soroudi
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
The Folktale Of Jews From Iran Central Asia And Afghanistan written by Sarah Sorour Soroudi and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Jewish folk literature categories.
Didaktisches Erz Hlen
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Author : Regula Forster
language : un
Publisher: Peter Lang
Release Date : 2010
Didaktisches Erz Hlen written by Regula Forster and has been published by Peter Lang this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Didactic literature categories.
Didaktisches Erzählen als zentrales Prinzip literarischer Belehrung wird in den mittelalterlichen Literaturen des Orients wie des Okzidents über Jahrhunderte vielfach variiert. Es begegnet sowohl in der lateinischen Literatur als auch in den von ihr mehr oder weniger direkt abhängigen Literaturen in den europäischen Volkssprachen, und ebenso bei den orientalischen Erben der Spätantike, besonders der arabischen und der persischen Literatur. Doch noch immer sind die kontrastive Auseinandersetzung und die interdisziplinäre Diskussion über das Phänomen literarischer Belehrung selten. Diese Lücke schließt der Band. Die Beiträge zeigen, wie vielfältig didaktisches Erzählen in den unterschiedlichen Literaturen des Mittelalters ist, aber auch, welche narrativen Verfahren den verschiedenen aus der Spätantike schöpfenden literarischen Traditionen gemeinsam sind.
Humor In Der Arabischen Kultur Humor In Arabic Culture
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Author : Georges Tamer
language : de
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Release Date : 2009-03-26
Humor In Der Arabischen Kultur Humor In Arabic Culture written by Georges Tamer and has been published by Walter de Gruyter this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-03-26 with Humor categories.
This collected volume publishes the contributions of numerous scholars to the International Symposium Humor in Arabic Culture, by the editor in July 2007 at the Free University of Berlin. First of all, a critical view is taken of early Muslim religious writings – and against the background of relevant Jewish and Christian pronouncements – to determine more closely the Islamic discourse on the value and non-value of humor; here too the question is examined of the extent to which normative forces were thus released which were able to set boundaries for Arabic humor. Then the wide spectrum of the humorous in classical Arabic literature is reviewed and the common elements connecting the multifarious forms of its expression are revealed as a traditional Arabic understanding of humor. Finally, the papers discuss the way Arabic humor has changed with the onset of the modern age and globalization and examine the role of humor as a vehicle of social and political criticism in Arabic societies.
Arabica
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Author :
language : fr
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
Arabica written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Arab countries categories.
Revue d'études arabes.
Verachtet Das Scherzen Nicht
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Author :
language : de
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
Verachtet Das Scherzen Nicht written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Persian literature categories.
The Arabian Nights In Historical Context
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Author : Saree Makdisi
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2008-11-13
The Arabian Nights In Historical Context written by Saree Makdisi and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-11-13 with Literary Criticism categories.
Alf layla wa layla (known in English as A Thousand and One Nights or The Arabian Nights) changed the world on a scale unrivalled by any other literary text. Inspired by a fourteenth-century Syrian manuscript, the appearance of Antoine Galland's twelve-volume Mille et Une Nuits in English translation (1704-1717), closely followed by the Grub Street English edition, drew the text into European circulation. Over the following three hundred years, a widely heterogeneous series of editions, compilations, translations, and variations circled the globe to reveal the absorption of The Arabian Nights into English, Continental, and global literatures, and its transformative return to modern Arabic literature, where it now enjoys a degree of prominence that it had never attained during the classical period. Beginning with a thorough introduction situating The Arabian Nights in its historical and cultural contexts-and offering a fresh examination of the text's multiple locations in the long history of modern Orientalism—this collection of essays by noted scholars from 'East', 'West', and in-between reassesses the influence of the Nights in Enlightenment and Romantic literature, as well as the text's vigorous after-life in the contemporary Arabic novel.