101 Middle Eastern Tales and Their Impact on Western Oral Tradition [#1011352]

Ulrich Marzolph, "101 Middle Eastern Tales and Their Impact on Western Oral Tradition "
English | ISBN: 0814347738 | 2020 | 624 pages | MOBI | 2 MB
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.