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050 00 $aPJ809$b.R87 2012
082 00 $a809.7$223
245 00 $aRuse and wit :$bthe humorous in Arabic, Persian, and Turkish narrative /$cedited by Dominic Parviz Brookshaw.
260 $aBoston, Mass. :$bIlex Foundation ;$aWashington, D.C. :$bCenter for Hellenic Studies Trustees for Harvard University ;$aCambridge, Mass. :$bDistributed by Harvard University Press,$cc2012.
300 $av, 166 p. ;$c23 cm.
490 1 $aIlex foundation series ;$v8
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction / 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.
650 0 $aMiddle Eastern literature$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aHumor in literature.
700 1 $aBrookshaw, Dominic Parviz.
830 0 $aIlex Foundation series ;$v8.
852 00 $bglx$hPJ809$i.R87 2012