عنوان

The wiles of women in Ottoman and Azeri texts

Number

TL47817

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انگلیسی

Title Proper

The wiles of women in Ottoman and Azeri texts

General Material Designation

[Thesis]

First Statement of Responsibility

David Selim Sayers

Subsequent Statement of Responsibility

Hanioglu, Sukru

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Princeton University

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2014

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

318

Text of Note

Committee members: Cook, Michael A.; Finn, Robert P.; Marmon, Shaun; Peirce, Leslie P.

Text of Note

Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-321-02236-0

Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree

Ph.D.

Discipline of degree

Near Eastern Studies

Body granting the degree

Princeton University

Text preceding or following the note

2014

Text of Note

The wiles of women are a literary theme that has been treated from ancient Egyptian narratives to twenty-first-century TV series. The theme reached its greatest flowering in literatures of the Islamicate world, beginning with Surat Yusuf of the Qur'an and inspiring entire literary traditions in Arabic (Kayd al-Nisa'), Persian (Makr-e Zan[an]), and Turkish (Mekr-i Zenan). While some scholarly work exists on the Arabic and Persian traditions, the Turkish tradition has not received significant scholarly attention to date. The present study aims to fill this gap. In so doing, the study presents, transliterates, and translates into English seventeen hitherto-unexamined prose stories on the wiles of women in Ottoman and Azeri Turkish. The first part of the study establishes a morphology for the stories and proposes a definition of the literary genre they represent. Both the morphology and the genre definition are designed to accommodate future additions to the corpus. The second part of the study engages in an in-depth analysis of the genre's treatment of the wiles-of-women theme, extrapolating a broader worldview from this treatment.

Middle Eastern literature; Womens studies; Islamic Studies; Theme; Turkish language; English; Persian language; Ancient Egyptian; Arabic language; Corpus analysis; Literary genres; Humor; Religious literature; Morphology; Men; Television; Learning; Prose; Women

Subject Term

Language, literature and linguistics;Social sciences;Islam;Literature;Ottoman;Turkish;Wiles;Women

Sayers, David Selim

Hanioglu, Sukru

Subdivision

Near Eastern Studies

Princeton University

Call Number

1558179516; 3627116

Electronic name

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[Thesis]

276903

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