Alexander Stories in Ajami Turkic
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Beschreibung
The book contains an edition of a collection of six stories about Alexander Dhulqarnain found in a manuscript kept in St. Petersburg, together with a translation, analyses of the language and the literary content, and indices. The stories must have been written in some variety of Western Oghuz Turkic in Iran, but the manuscript itself is a rather late copy, produced in a Kipchak-Chaghatay environment (presumably Kazan). The content of the stories are of the adventurous kind, and betray a background of more or less popular performances by storytellers. One striking feature is the interest taken in mechanical contraptions, such as automata for the purpose of the defence of castles.
Autor*in
Hendrik Boeschoten
Themen in »Alexander Stories in Ajami Turkic«
Alexander der Große Alexander der Große /Erzählungen Alexander der Große /Literatur Iran /Literaturgeschichte Iran /Sprache Oghusisch Turksprachen Türkei /Literaturgeschichte Türken/ Literatur