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Orality and textuality in the Iranian world : patterns of interaction across the centuries /
"The volume demonstrates the cultural centrality of the oral tradition for Iranian studies. It contains contributions from scholars from various areas of Iranian and comparative studies, among which are the pre-Islamic Zoroastrian tradition with its wide network of influences in late antique Me...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden :
Brill,
[2015]
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| Colección: | Jerusalem studies in religion and culture ;
v. 19. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: New perspectives on orality in Iranian studies / Julia Rubanovich
- Part 1. Approaching orality
- Memory and textuality in the orality-literacy continuum / Karl Reichl
- Orality and esotericism : reflections on modes of transmission in late antiquity / Shaul Shaked
- Part 2. Sacred traditions and oral history
- Irano-Talmudica III : giant mythological creatures in transition from the Avesta to the Babylonian Talmud / Reuven Kiperwasser and Dan D.Y. Shapira
- The Islamic ascension narrative in the context of conversion in medieval Iran : an apocalypse at the intersection of orality and textuality / Maria E. Subtelny
- The motif of the cave and the funerary narratives of Nāṣir-i Khusrau / Jo-Ann Gross
- Part 3. Iranian epic tradition
- "The ground well trodden but the Shah not found ..." : orality and textuality in the Book of Kings and the Zoroastrian mythoepic tradition / Yuhan S.-D. Vevaina
- "The Book of the Black Demon," or Shabrang-nama, and the black demon in oral tradition / Gabrielle R. van den Berg
- Why so many stories? : untangling the versions of Iskandar's birth and upbringing / Julia Rubanovich
- Some comments on the probable sources of ibn Ḥusām's Khavaran-nama and the oral transmission of epic materials / Raya Shani
- Professional storytelling (naqqali) in Qajar Iran / Ulrich Marzolph
- Part 4. Oral and literary traditions as channels of cultural transformation
- The literary use of proverbs and myths in Nāṣir-i Khusrau's Divan / Mohsen Zakeri
- Classical poetry as cultural capital in the proverbs of Jews from Iran : transformations of intertextuality / Galit Hasan-Rokem
- Gashtak : oral/literary intertextuality, performance and identity in contemporary Tajikistan / Margaret Mills and Ravshan Rahmoni
- The Tale of the Old Woman on the Mountain : Jewish folktale from Afghanistan / Tsila Zan-Bar Tsur
- Part 5. Performative aspects of orality in visual artefacts
- Aramaic incantation texts between orality and textuality / Charles G. Haberl
- Between demons and kings : the art of Babylonian incantation bowls / Naama Vilozny
- Between written texts, oral performances and mural paintings : illustrated scrolls in pre-Islamic Central Asia / Frantz Grenet.