Ruse and wit : the humorous in Arabic, Persian, and Turkish narrative / edited by Dominic Parviz Brookshaw.

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Ilex Foundation series ; 8.
Other Authors: Brookshaw, Dominic Parviz
Language:English
Published: Boston, Mass. : Washington, D.C. : Cambridge, Mass. : Ilex Foundation ; Center for Hellenic Studies Trustees for Harvard University ; Distributed by Harvard University Press, [2012], ©2012.
Series:Ilex Foundation series ; 8.
Subjects:
Middle Eastern literature > History and criticism.
Humor in literature.
Physical Description:v, 166 pages ; 23 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction / Dominic Parviz Brookshaw
  • Amphigory and other nonsense in classical Arabic literature / Geert Jan van Gelder
  • Persian humor in the international context / Ulrich marzolph
  • Have you heard the one about the man from Qazvin? regionalist humor in the works of Ubayd-i Zākānī / Dominic Parviz Brookshaw
  • Bawdy anecdotes in religious settings: examples from medieval Persian literature / Olga M. Davidson
  • Playful figures of script in Persian and Chinese / Paul Sprachman
  • Despots of the world unite! satire in the iranian constitutional press: the Majalla-yi istibdād, 1907-1908 / Ali Gheissari
  • Humor for in-betweeners: Sādiq Hidāyat's myth of creation as a cross-cultural phenomenon / Marta Simidchieva
  • Ottoman Karagöz and Greek shadow theater: communicational shifts and variants in a multi-ethnic and ethnic context / Anna Stavrakopoulou.