Kashefi's Anvar-E Sohayli : Rewriting Kalila Wa-Dimna in Timurid Herat

Preface -- Research Strategy -- Positioning the AS within the KD Field -- Mapping Out My Book -- Practical Information -- Acknowledgments -- List of Stories and Taxonomy -- Table of Contents of the AS1 -- Taxonomy -- Chapter 1 - Kāshefi Composes the Anvār-e Sohayli -- 1 The Author and the Patron -...

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Main Author: Ruymbeke, Christine van (Author)
Document Type: Online Resource Book
Language:English
Published: Leiden : BRILL , 2016
Edition:1st ed
Series:Studies in Persian Cultural History Ser v.11
Online Access:http://proxy.fid-lizenzen.de/han/proquest-ebook-central-altertum/ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bsbfidaltertumswissenschaften/detail.action?docID=4734080
Related Items:Erscheint auch als: Kashefi's Anvar-E Sohayli : Rewriting Kalila Wa-Dimna in Timurid Herat
E-Book Packages:ProQuest Ebook Central : Classical Studies Collection
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Summary:Preface -- Research Strategy -- Positioning the AS within the KD Field -- Mapping Out My Book -- Practical Information -- Acknowledgments -- List of Stories and Taxonomy -- Table of Contents of the AS1 -- Taxonomy -- Chapter 1 - Kāshefi Composes the Anvār-e Sohayli -- 1 The Author and the Patron -- 2 The Contents of Kāshefi's Dibācheh -- 3 Rewriting Nasrollah Monshi's KD Version -- 4 The Subject Matter of the AS -- 5 The Table of Contents -- Chapter 2 - Being Pernickety about "Animal Fables" -- 1 Fussing about "Fables" -- 2 Nit-picking on Zabān-e Vohush? -- 3 Animals as Unstable Emblems -- 4 A Bevy of Human Actors -- 5 Humans and Animals -- 6 Why Write Animal Stories for a Political Audience? -- Chapter 3 - The Biggest Bees in Kāshefi's Bonnet: A ThematicAnalysis -- 1 Mirrors for Princes -- 2 Seeking Useful Friends and Genuine Comrades -- 3 Introducing the Trickster-Rhetorician -- Chapter 4 - Building Appreciation for "Tasteless Bombast" -- 1 Kāshefi's "Degenerate Style" -- 2 Prosimetrum -- 3 The Effect of the Verse Quotations and Eqtebās -- Chapter 5 - Topical Web, Structural Maze -- 1 The New Double Outer Frame -- 2 The Fourteen Main Stories -- 3 The Embedded Sub-Stories -- 4 Shiruyeh Knew That the First Bāb is the Book in a Nutshell -- Chapter 6 - The Skeleton -- 1 A Skeleton in the Cupboard of Persian Literary Studies! -- 2 Sir William's 1771 Sugarchest -- 3 A Language Exercise -- Chapter 7 - A Collaborative Effort: The "Noble" HereditaryLine of KD Versions and Translations in the PersianTradition -- 1 Concerns, Doubts and Queries -- 2 The Lost Sanskrit Text -- 3 Borzuyeh's Lost Pahlavi Text -- 4 The Old Syriac Version -- 5 Ibn al-Muqaffaʿ's Arabic KD -- 6 Balʿami's and Rudaki's Opus Geminum -- 7 Nasrollah Monshi's KD Prosimetrum -- Chapter 8 - Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Index.
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (428 pages)
ISBN:9789004314757

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