TY  - BOOK
AU  - Brookshaw,Dominic Parviz
TI  - Ruse and wit: the humorous in Arabic, Persian, and Turkish narrative 
T2  - Ilex foundation series
SN  - 9780674066700 (pbk.) :
AV  - PJ809 .R87 2012
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Boston, Mass.
PB  - Ilex Foundation ; Center for Hellenic Studies
KW  - Middle Eastern literature
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Humor in literature
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction / 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
ER  -