Ḥikāyat Abī Al-Qāsim: A Literary Banquet

ISBN-13: 9781474426381 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 216 str.

Emily Selove

Opis

This study compares ?ikayah, a mysterious text surviving in a single manuscript, to other comical banquet texts and party-crashing characters, especially from Ancient Greece and Rome.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements; Part 1: Introduction; a. Manuscript; b. Authorship and Dating; c. Editions; d. Translations; e. Summary of Events; f. Scholarship; g. A Mediterranean Table; Part II: Chapter 1: A Sampling of the ?ik?yah; Part III: Chapter 2: A Microcosm Introduced; a. Mimesis or Mannerism?; b. Baghdad the Party-Crasher; c. Those Camels have Passed; Part IV: Chapter 3: Crashing the Text; Part V: Chapter 4: Mujun is a Crazy Game; Part VI: Chapter 5: The Cosmic Crasher; a. Ab? al-Q?sim as Microcosm; b. Ab? al-Q?sim as Ibl?s; c. The Microcosm is a Man; Part VII: Conclusion; a. Bojangles Won’t Dance; b. Philemon and Baucis; Bibliography; Index. ?