Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

Dortmund : Verlag für Orientkunde, 2018.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Marzolph, Ulrich.
• Bendix, Regina.
• Noyes, Dorothy.

Description

2 volumes : illustrations (some color); 21 cm

Series Statement

Beiträge zur Kulturgeschichte des Islamischen Orients ; Band 45.1+2

Uniform Title

Beiträge zur Kulturgeschichte des islamischen Orients ; Bd. 45.

Subject

• Wit and humor
• Islamic countries > Humor
• Islamic countries

Genre/Form

Humor.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

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. Lau -- 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.

Call Number

JFD 18-3374

ISBN

• 9783936687453
• 3936687455

LCCN

9783936687453

OCLC

1043737209

Title

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

Publisher

Dortmund : Verlag für Orientkunde, 2018.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Beiträge zur Kulturgeschichte des Islamischen Orients ; Band 45.1+2

Beiträge zur Kulturgeschichte des islamischen Orients ; Bd. 45.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Language

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

Added Author

Marzolph, Ulrich.

Bendix, Regina.

Noyes, Dorothy.

Other Standard Identifier

9783936687453

Research Call Number

JFD 18-3374