EAN: 9783447112871

THE WILES OF WOMEN AS A LITERARY GENRE - DAVID ...

The wiles of women are a timeless literary theme  treated from ancient Egyptian narratives to
21st-century TV series. The theme reaches its greatest flowering in the Islamic world 
beginning with the Qur'an and inspiring entire literary traditions in Arabic  Persian  and
Turkish. The Wiles of Women as a Literary Genre is the first study devoted to the Turkish
branch of the tradition. The book consists of three parts: (a) a narrative analysis that helps
to define the stories as a literary genre  (b) a cultural analysis exploring the worldview
beneath the stories  and (c) transliterations and English translations of 17 previously
unavailable stories in Ottoman and Azeri Turkish. The genre is colorful and heterogeneous  with
different stories viewing the wiles of women as evil and dangerous  as frivolous and amusing 
or as thoughtful and instructive. Still  women are depicted by all stories as intrinsically and
incorrigibly guileful. The same does not hold for men  who are granted moral agency and the
capacity to learn from their mistakes. The outcome is a world that serves as a testing ground
for men  with women as obstacles or at best mediators between men and a virtuous life. But in
spite of this rigid frame  many stories employ humor and ambiguity-for instance by casting men
in guileful roles-to grant a more nuanced view of social and gender relations.

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