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Orality and textuality in the Iranian world: patterns of interaction across the centuries

Orality and textuality in the Iranian world: patterns of interaction across the centuries
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ISBN 9789004291836 (hbk.)
Title Orality and textuality in the Iranian world : patterns of interaction across the centuries / edited by Julia Rubanovich
Publisher Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2015
Physical desc. xx, 456 pages ; illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.
Series Jerusalem studies in religion and culture 19
Bibliography etc. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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 Sorab-Dinshaw 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': a 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.
Subject Persian literature -- History and criticism
Persian poetry -- History and criticism
Religion and literature -- Iran -- History
Zoroastrianism -- Iran -- History
Folklore -- Iran -- History
Oral tradition -- Iran -- History
Transmission of texts -- Iran -- History
Iran -- Intellectual life
Iran -- Social life and customs
Iran -- Study and teaching
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