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1 online resource |
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Series in Fairy-Tale Studies |
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Series in fairy-tale studies.
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| Contents |
Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. The Fox Rids Itself of Fleas (ATU 63) -- 2. Belling the Cat (ATU 110) -- 3. The Bird Promises to Give Its Captor Three Pieces of Advice (ATU 150) -- 4. The Faithful Animal Rashly Killed (ATU 178A) -- 5. The Cat and the Candle (ATU 217) -- 6. The Princess and Her Secret Affair (ATU 306) -- 7. The Unfaithful Wife Transforms Her Husband into a Dog (ATU 449) -- 8. The Two Hunchbacks (ATU 503) -- 9. The Unpromising Rascal Makes His Fortune with the Help of a Magic Object (ATU 561) |
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10. The Mechanical Flying Gadget (ATU 575) -- 11. The Husband Buried Alive Together with His Deceased Wife (ATU 612) -- 12. The Contending Lovers Are Challenged to Acquire the Rarest Thing in the World (ATU 653A) -- 13. The Sensitive Brothers and Their Clever Deductions (ATU 655) -- 14. Years of Experience in a Moment: The Man Is Transformed into a Woman (and Back Again) (ATU 681) -- 15. The Chaste Woman Coveted by Her Brother-in-Law (ATU 712) -- 16. The Three Old Men (ATU 726) -- 17. The Foolish Couple Waste the Three Wishes They Have Been Granted (ATU 750A) |
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18. The Subaltern Does Not Want to Sell the House to the Ruler (ATU 759E) -- 19. The Treasure Finders Murder One Another (ATU 763) -- 20. Greed Makes the Cheater Admit His Misdemeanor (ATU 785) -- 21. God Willing! (ATU 830C) -- 22. The Greedy Man Is Blinded and Falls into Misery (ATU 836F*) -- 23. Drinking Leads to Committing Serious Crimes (ATU 839) -- 24. The Princess Whose Suitors Will Be Executed if They Fail to Solve Her Riddles (AT 851A) -- 25. The Entrapped Would-Be Seducers Have to Work to Earn Their Food (ATU 882A*) -- 26. The Prince Learns a Profession (ATU 888A*) |
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27. A Pound of Flesh as Security for a Loan (ATU 890) -- 28. The Lowly Man Shrewdly Responds to the King's Unanswerable Questions (ATU 922) -- 29. The Treacherous Treasure Hunter (ATU 936*) -- 30. The Robbers Hiding Their Treasures in a Magic Cavern (ATU 954) -- 31. Whose Was the Noblest Action? (ATU 976) -- 32. The Villager in the Town of Rogues (ATU 978) -- 33. The Dishes of the Same Flavor (ATU 983) -- 34. The Fool Guards the Door by Taking It Along (ATU 1009) -- 35. The Fools Try to Keep the Bird from Escaping (ATU 1213) -- 36. Trying to Please Everyone (ATU 1215) |
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37. The Fool Doubles the Load by Counterbalancing the Wheat with Stones (AT 1242B) -- 38. Making a Hole in the Ground to Deposit the Soil from the Previous Digging (ATU 1255) -- 39. Warming Oneself on a Distant Fire (ATU 1262) -- 40. The Fool Forgets to Count the Donkey He Is Sitting On (ATU 1288A) -- 41. The Scholar and the Ferryman (El-Shamy 1293C*) -- 42. Freeing the Part of the Body Stuck in the Jar by Cutting It Off (ATU 1294) -- 43. The Fox Fears It Might Be Taken for a Camel (El-Shamy 1319N*) -- 44. Accidental Cannibalism (ATU 1339G) |
| Summary |
Against the methodological backdrop of historical and comparative folk narrative research, 101 Middle Eastern Tales and Their Impact on Western Oral Tradition surveys the history, dissemination, and characteristics of over one hundred narratives transmitted to Western tradition from or by the Middle Eastern Muslim literatures (i.e., authored written works in Arabic, Persian, and Ottoman Turkish). For a tale to be included, Ulrich Marzolph considered two criteria: that the tale originates from or at least was transmitted by a Middle Eastern source, and that it was recorded from a Western narrator's oral performance in the course of the nineteenth or twentieth century. The rationale behind these restrictive definitions is predicated on Marzolph's main concern with the long-lasting effect that some of the "Oriental" narratives exercised in Western popular tradition-those tales that have withstood the test of time. Marzolph focuses on the originally "Oriental" tales that became part and parcel of modern Western oral tradition. Since antiquity, the "Orient" constitutes the quintessential Other vis-à-vis the European cultures. While delineation against this Other served to define and reassure the Self, the "Orient" also constituted a constant source of fascination, attraction, and inspiration. Through oral retellings, numerous tales from Muslim tradition became an integral part of European oral and written tradition in the form of learned treatises, medieval sermons, late medieval fabliaux, early modern chapbooks, contemporary magazines, and more. In present times, when national narcissisms often acquire the status of strongholds delineating the Us against the Other, it is imperative to distinguish, document, visualize, and discuss the extent to which the West is not only indebted to the Muslim world but also shares common features with Muslim narrative tradition. 101 Middle Eastern Tales and Their Impact on Western Oral Tradition is an important contribution to this debate and a vital work for scholars, students, and readers of folklore and fairy tales |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 597-669) and indexes |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 05, 2020) |
| Subject |
Folklore -- Middle East.
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Tales -- Middle East
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Oral tradition -- Western countries
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East and West.
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East and West
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Folklore
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Oral tradition
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Tales
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Middle East
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Western countries
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0814347754 |
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9780814347751 |
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