Ruse and Wit - The Humorous in Arabic, Persian, and Turkish Narrative

Informationen zum Autor Dominic Parviz Brookshaw is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and Persian Literature at Stanford University Olga M. Davidson is a Research Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Muslim Societies and Civilizations at Boston University. Anna Stavarakopoulou is Assistant Professor of Theater Studies at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Klappentext These essays examine a millennium of humorous and satirical writing in the Islamic world. Humor in Arabic! Persian! and Turkish narrative emerges here as a culturally modulated phenomenon that demands examination with reference to its historical framework and that! in turn! communicates as much about its producers as it does about its audience. Zusammenfassung These essays examine a millennium of humorous and satirical writing in the Islamic world. Humor in Arabic! Persian! and Turkish narrative emerges here as a culturally modulated phenomenon that demands examination with reference to its historical framework and that! in turn! communicates as much about its producers as it does about its audience.

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• Authors: Dominic Parviz Brookshaw, Dominic Parviz (EDT)/ Davidson Brookshaw
• Assisted by: Dominic Parviz Brookshaw (Editor)
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.10.2012
• EAN: 9780674066700
• ISBN: 978-0-674-06670-0
• No. of pages: 172
• Series: Ilex Foundation; Ilex Series; Ilex Foundation; Hellenic Studies - Ilex (HUP)
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies