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Kurdish Art and Identity: Verbal Art, Self-Definition and Recent History
Contributor(s): Korangy, Alireza (Editor), Kreyenbroek, Philip G. (Preface by)
ISBN: 311059689X     ISBN-13: 9783110596892
Publisher: de Gruyter
OUR PRICE:   $93.09  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: September 2020
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BISAC Categories:
- Religion | Islam - General
- History | Middle East - Iran
- Literary Criticism | Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology
Physical Information: 1.6" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" (2.25 lbs) 225 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Middle East
 
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Publisher Description:
Folklore has been a phenomenon based on nostalgic and autochthonous nuances conveyed with a story-telling technique with a penchant for over-playing and nationalistic pomp and circumstance, often with significant consequences for societal, poetic, and cultural areas. These papers highlight challenges that have an outreaching relationship to the regional, rhetorical, and trans-rhetorical devices and manners in Kurdish folklore, which subscribes to an ironic sense of hope all the while issuing an appeal for a largely unaccomplished nationhood, simultaneously insisting on a linguistic solidarity. In a folkloric literature that has an overarching theory of poetics - perhaps even trans-figurative cognitive poetics due to the multi-faceted nature of its application and the complexity of its linguistic structure - the relationship of man (and less frequently woman) with others takes center stage in many of the folkloric creations. Arts are not figurative representations of the real in the Kurdish world; they are the real.