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- Title
HEBER THE KENITE DECEIVES A POOR YOKEL: A LITERARY READING OF THE TWENTY-FIRST GATE IN YEHUDA AL-ḤARIZI’S SEFER TAḤKEMONI (Compared to Its Arabic Source, Al-Hamadhāni’s Al-Maqama AlBaghdādiyya).
- Authors
Einat-Nov, Idit
- Abstract
This paper proposes a close-reading of one of the best-known maqamas in Yehuda Al-Ḥarizi’s Sefer Taḥkemoni, which is here compared with the original Arabic version, Al-Hamadhāni’s Al-Maqama Al-Baghdādiyya. This reading is based on the hypothesis that some of the well-known medieval rhymed Hebrew stories are based on uncertainty as a poetic principle and that this principle can explain (and be explained by) their frequent use of contradictory elements and varied forms of the ironic, the grotesque, and the ambiguous.
- Subjects
ORAL interpretation; STORIES in rhyme; HEISENBERG uncertainty principle; MEDIEVAL romance literature; GROTESQUE
- Publication
Hebrew Studies, 2022, Vol 63, p165
- ISSN
0146-4094
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/hbr.2022.0008