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Le vocabulaire arabe dans le Livre des rois de Firdausī : étude philologique et de statistique linguistique
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ISBN: 3447001534 9783447001533 Year: 1970 Publisher: Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz,


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Mit goldenem Siegel : über Briefe, Schreiber und Boten im Šāhnāhme
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ISBN: 3895001651 Year: 2000 Publisher: Wiesbaden : Reichert,

The Oral Background of Persian Epics
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ISBN: 9789004125872 9004125876 9789004502680 9004502688 Year: 2003 Volume: v. 26 Publisher: Leiden;Boston BRILL

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This volume discusses the indirect influence of oral transmission on the genesis and evolution of the Persian written epic tradition. On the basis of formal characteristics of naqqâli (Persian storytelling) performance, a set of formal and thematic criteria is proposed to determine the extent to which written Persian epics show structures ultimately deriving from oral performance. It is applied to the Shâh-nâme of Ferdowsi (c. 1000) and to the Garshâsp-nâme of Asadi (c. 1064-66). The first part of the book examines the Oral-Formulaic Theory and proposes an alternative approach focusing on naqqâli. The book may be relevant to both oralists and Iranists; it demonstrates the complex process where orality interacts with written tradition in the genesis of the Shâh-nâme.

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