Disputation Literature in the Near East and Beyond / / ed. by Enrique Jiménez, Catherine Mittermayer.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2020
• MitwirkendeR: Abdullaeva-Melville, Firuza,; Aynur, Hatice,; Brock, Sebastian,; Ceccarelli, Manuel,; Cecilia, Amparo Alba,; Chaney, John A.,; Cristóbal, Vicente,; Gelder, Geert Jan van,; George, A. R.,; Holes, Clive,; Honegger, Thomas,; Jiménez, Enrique,; Larsen, David,; Mathieu, Bernard,; Matuszak, Jana,; Mengozzi, Alessandro,; Mittermayer, Catherine,; Otero, Andrés Piquer,; Porta, Sergio La,; Pozo, Juan Luis Arcaz,; Seyed-Gohrab, Asghar,; Stauder, Andréas,; Tabard, Laëtitia,
• HerausgeberIn: Jiménez, Enrique,; Mittermayer, Catherine,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Ancient Near Eastern Records (SANER) , 25
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (VIII, 470 p.)

Disputation literature is a type of text in which usually two non-human entities (such as trees, animals, drinks, or seasons) try to establish their superiority over each other by means of a series of speeches written in an elaborate, flowery register. As opposed to other dialogue literature, in dis...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Table of Contents
• 1. Introduction
• Section I. Disputations from the Ancient Near East
• 2. The Sumerian Precedence Debates
• 3. An Introduction to the Sumerian School Disputes
• 4. “She was dumbstruck and took it to heart”
• 5. The Tamarisk, the Date-Palm and the King
• 6. Antiques in the King’s Libraries
• 7. La «fable» égyptienne du Corps et de la Tête (tablette Turin CG 58004)
• 8. Opposing Voices in Ancient Egyptian Literature
• 9. Those Who Cannot Do, Reign?
• Section II. Eastern Disputations during the Middle Ages
• 10. Disputations in Syriac Literature
• 11. The Debate of Spring and Autumn in Arabic Literature
• 12. Night and Day in Islamicate Literary Disputation
• 13. Disputation Poems in Medieval Hebrew Literature in Spain
• 14. Debate in Iranian Literary Culture
• 15. The Rhetoric of Persian Verbal Contests
• 16. A Survey of Disputation Texts in Ottoman Literature
• 17. Dispute Poems in Armenian
• Section III. Western Disputations during the Middle Ages
• 18. Tradition and Innovation in the Early Medieval Latin Debates
• 19. Owls, Nightingales, Cuckoos and Other Feathered Disputants
• 20. De la dispute des clercs au dialogue des acteurs
• Section IV. Contemporary Disputation Texts
• 21. Neo-Aramaic Dialogue and Dispute Poems
• 22. Modern Vernacular Disputation Poems from Bahrain and the Wider Gulf
• Section V. Other Traditions of Disputations
• 23. Ludic Disputations in the East-Asian Cultural Sphere
• Index of Contestants