Ruse and wit
Subtitle: the humorous in Arabic, Persian, and Turkish narrative
By: edited by Dominic Parviz Brookshaw
Series: Ilex foundation series
Publisher: Ilex Foundation ; Center for Hellenic Studies
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Boston, Mass
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780674066700
Subjects: Humor in literature; Middle Eastern literature; History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Dominic Parviz Brookshaw; title: Amphigory and other nonsense in classical Arabic literature / Geert Jan van Gelder; title: Persian humor in the international context / Ulrich marzolph; title: Have you heard the one about the man from Qazvin? regionalist humor in the works of Ubayd-i Zākānī / Dominic Parviz Brookshaw; title: Bawdy anecdotes in religious settings: examples from medieval Persian literature / Olga M. Davidson; title: Playful figures of script in Persian and Chinese / Paul Sprachman; title: Despots of the world unite! satire in the iranian constitutional press: the Majalla-yi istibdād, 1907-1908 / Ali Gheissari; title: Humor for in-betweeners: Sādiq Hidāyat's myth of creation as a cross-cultural phenomenon / Marta Simidchieva; title: Ottoman Karagöz and Greek shadow theater: communicational shifts and variants in a multi-ethnic and ethnic context / Anna Stavrakopoulou.