Terra ridens, terra narrans
Subtitle: Festschrift zum 65. Geburtstag von Ulrich Marzolph
By: herausgegeben von Regina F. Bendix und Dorothy Noyes
Series: Beiträge zur Kulturgeschichte des Islamischen Orients -- Band 45.1+2; Beiträge zur Kulturgeschichte des islamischen Orients -- Bd. 45.
Publisher: Verlag für Orientkunde
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Dortmund
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9783936687453
Subjects: Humor; Wit and humor
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.

Contents in English, with one contribution in French and one in German.
Table of contents: title: A Marzolph nights' entertainment  -- Regina F. Bendix and Dorothy Noyes -- I.; title: Canonical texts and contexts : the 1001 nights and the Shahnameh --; title: L'étonnante générosité des Mille et une nuits  -- Aboubakr Chaïbi; title: The tale of Hatim Ta'i's generosity after his death and its historic evolution  -- Baqer Qorbani Zarrin; title: Trickster jester : on humor, word play and laughter in the Arabian Nights  -- Wen-Chin Ouyang; title: In search of Zāl : from peri to old woman  -- Mehran Afshari; title: Visual and textual medieval humor in honor of femininity  -- Roxana Zenhari -- II.; title: Knowledge and wisdom in Islamic narrative --; title: Al-Tanūkhī on the recovery of health and wealth  -- Bruce Fudge; title: Ibn Tufayl's philosophical novel Hayy ibn Yaqzan and the quest for enlightenment in classical Islam  -- Sebastian Günther; title: Traces of some old anecdotes in the works of 'Attār-e Nishāpuri  -- Pegah Khadish -- III.; title: Tale-types and their byways --; title: "A time to weep and a time to laugh" : swinging between the comic and the tragic in folk-narratives  -- Galit Hasan-Rokem; title: Tales of the dreaming man : Shakespeare, "The sleeper and the waker, " and world literature  -- Paulo Lemos Horta; title: "The enchanted pear tree" in Hispanic tradition  -- Maria Jesús Lacarra; title: Another locust's leg : folktale types, subtypes, "décor, " and meaning  -- Margaret A. Mills -- IV.; title: Tying down Nasreddin Hodja --; title: Ambiguous jokes : Nasreddin Hoca, Afandi and folklore studies  -- Ingeborg Baldauf; title: "This is not our Hoca!" : repurposing, repackaging, and reappropriating Nasreddin Hoca  -- JoAnn Conrad; title: Nasreddin Hodja in Greek-speaking modern and contemporary contexts, or: a long stop-over for a great traveler  -- Marilena Papachristophorou -- Volume 2. -- V.; title: Humor in and out of context --; title: The role of humor in the Bengali Chitrakar repertoire  -- Frank J. Korom; title: Satire in Tajik folk theater  -- Roshan Rahmoni; title: Text und Kontext : Zur Bedeutung der Populär-Satire in Iran  -- Shahnaz R. Nadjmabadi; title: Al-Maqvim, Mohmal al-Taqvim, "Calendar Schmalendar." A satirical work from the Qajar era, Iran  -- Ali Boozari; title: Deep jokes from Boir Ahmad, Iran  -- Erika Friedl; title: The menial and the miniskirt  -- M. Omidsalar; title: Narrative monuments : Akbar-Birbal jokes  -- Sadhana Naithani; title: The supernatural and laughter : on the appropriate incongruity of legends and jokes  -- Ülo Valk -- VI.; title: From Orientalist to postcolonial rereadings --; title: Laughing at the natives? : Orientalism in the comic mode  -- Robert Irwin; title: The tear-bottle quest : European perception of the Biblical Orient and Iranian Shiite ritual  -- Yuriko Yamanaka; title: Remediation and refiguration in Yousry Nasrallah's Sheherazade, tell me a story  -- Cristina Bacchilega; title: When Sheherazade meets Snow White : the politcs of frame play in Bill Willingham's 1001 nights of snowfall  -- Kimberly J. Lau; title: Homo Hibernicus Rusticus revisited : Flann O'Brien's parody of national mythmaking  -- Máiréad Nic Craith and Ullrich Kockel -- VII.; title: Unsettling narratives --; title: Childhood traumata and hero fantasies : diegetic autobiographical narration in films of Time Burton  -- Ingrid Tomkowiak; title: Changes in the traditional way of life in the Yuruk community in Macedonia : a case study  -- Elizabeta Koneska; title: No laughing matter : fairy tales and the 2016 US presidential election -- Donald Haase.