Regina F. Bendix and Dorothy Noyes: A Marzolph nights' entertainment Aboubakr Chaïbi: I. Canonical texts and contexts : the 1001 nights and the Shahnameh ; L'étonnante générosité des Mille et une nuits Baqer Qorbani Zarrin: The tale of Hatim Ta'i's generosity after his death and its historic evolution Wen-Chin Ouyang: Trickster jester : on humor, word play and laughter in the Arabian Nights Mehran Afshari: In search of Zāl : from peri to old woman Roxana Zenhari: Visual and textual medieval humor in honor of femininity Bruce Fudge: II. Knowledge and wisdom in Islamic narrative ; Al-Tanūkhī on the recovery of health and wealth Sebastian Günther: Ibn Tufayl's philosophical novel Hayy ibn Yaqzan and the quest for enlightenment in classical Islam Pegah Khadish: Traces of some old anecdotes in the works of 'Attār-e Nishāpuri Galit Hasan-Rokem: III. Tale-types and their byways ; "A time to weep and a time to laugh" : swinging between the comic and the tragic in folk-narratives Paulo Lemos Horta: Tales of the dreaming man : Shakespeare, "The sleeper and the waker, " and world literature Maria Jesús Lacarra: "The enchanted pear tree" in Hispanic tradition Margaret A. Mills: Another locust's leg : folktale types, subtypes, "décor, " and meaning Ingeborg Baldauf: IV. Tying down Nasreddin Hodja ; Ambiguous jokes : Nasreddin Hoca, Afandi and folklore studies JoAnn Conrad: "This is not our Hoca!" : repurposing, repackaging, and reappropriating Nasreddin Hoca Marilena Papachristophorou: Nasreddin Hodja in Greek-speaking modern and contemporary contexts, or: a long stop-over for a great traveler Frank J. Korom: Volume 2. V. Humor in and out of context ; The role of humor in the Bengali Chitrakar repertoire Roshan Rahmoni: Satire in Tajik folk theater Shahnaz R. Nadjmabadi: Text und Kontext : Zur Bedeutung der Populär-Satire in Iran Ali Boozari: Al-Maqvim, Mohmal al-Taqvim, "Calendar Schmalendar." A satirical work from the Qajar era, Iran Erika Friedl: Deep jokes from Boir Ahmad, Iran M. Omidsalar: The menial and the miniskirt Sadhana Naithani: Narrative monuments : Akbar-Birbal jokes Ülo Valk: The supernatural and laughter : on the appropriate incongruity of legends and jokes Robert Irwin: VI. From Orientalist to postcolonial rereadings ; Laughing at the natives? : Orientalism in the comic mode Yuriko Yamanaka: The tear-bottle quest : European perception of the Biblical Orient and Iranian Shiite ritual Cristina Bacchilega: Remediation and refiguration in Yousry Nasrallah's Sheherazade, tell me a story Kimberly J. Lau: When Sheherazade meets Snow White : the politcs of frame play in Bill Willingham's 1001 nights of snowfall Máiréad Nic Craith and Ullrich Kockel: Homo Hibernicus Rusticus revisited : Flann O'Brien's parody of national mythmaking Ingrid Tomkowiak: VII. Unsettling narratives ; Childhood traumata and hero fantasies : diegetic autobiographical narration in films of Time Burton Elizabeta Koneska: Changes in the traditional way of life in the Yuruk community in Macedonia : a case study Donald Haase.: No laughing matter : fairy tales and the 2016 US presidential election |
