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THE STUDY OF POPULAR LITERATURE IN THE PERSIAN CONTEXT
1. Academic approaches to popular literature
2. Specifics of popular literature
3. Cultural components of Persian popular literature
4. The relation between popular and elite literature
5. The relation between the individual and the collective
6. Persian popular literature as defined by content
7. The influence of printing on Persian popular literature
8. The study of Persian popular literature: present and future
CHAPTER 1: WRITTEN KURDISH LITERATURE -- J. Blau
2. Early Kurdish literature
The beginning of Sorani as a literary language
3. Kurdish literature after World War I
In Iraq and Turkey, 1958-90
CHAPTER 2: KURDISH ORAL LITERATURE -- C. Allison
1. Oral tradition in Kurdistan
2. The upheavals of the late twentieth century
3. Studies of Kurdish oral literature
9. The future of Kurdish oral literature
CHAPTER 3. ORALITY AND RELIGION IN KURDISTAN: THE YEZIDI AND AHL-E HAQQ TRADITIONS -- P.G.Kreyenbroek
1. The Yezidis and Ahl-e Haqq
Some characteristic ideas and beliefs
2. Textual traditions of the Yezidis and Ahl-e Haqq
The absorption of outside influences
Storylines and sacred poems
Creation and the First Things
Legends explaining the community's origins and affiliations
Philosophical themes: the implications of death
On the discovery of the sacred texts
4. Questions of orality and literacy in connection with the poems
CHAPTER 4: PASHTO LITERATURE: THE CLASSICAL PERIOD -- S. Andreyev
1. Poetic forms and genres
2. Early and classical Pashto poetry
Rowshani authors and their works
Rahman Baba and Abd-al-Hamid
CHAPTER 5: MODERN PASHTO WRITTEN LITERATURE -- L.N. Bartlotti
2. The development of modern Pashto literature
3. Other factors affecting modern Pashto written literature
The place of poets and writers in Pashtun society
Modern Pashto literature and the politics of language and identity
Literary-cum-cultural organizations
CHAPTER 6: PASHTO ORAL AND POPULAR LITERATURE -- W.Heston
4. Bibliographies, collections and studies
Newspapers and periodicals
Audiocassettes and performance
CHAPTER 7: BALOCHI LITERATURE -- J.Elfenbein
The composition by individuals of classical oral ballads
Ballads by or about personalities of the Cakur Cycle
2. Literature of the post-classical periods: the eighteenth century
The tale/ballad of Isa and Bari
3. The nineteenth century
CHAPTER 8: OSSETIC LITERATURE -- F.Thordarson
1. The history of writing in Ossetic
2. Named authors until 1917
CHAPTER 9: PERSIAN POPULAR LITERATURE -- U.Marzolph
3. Traditional popular reading matter
Language and formulaic expression
Dating Persian folk-tales
5. Proverbs and popular sayings
CHAPTER 10: NAQQALI: PROFESSIONAL IRANIAN STORYTELLING -- K.Yamamoto
6. Tumars and literary sources
8. Some specific features of oral performance
CHAPTER 11: KASHEFI'S ROWZAT AL-SHOHADA: THE KARBALA NARRATIVE AS UNDER-PINNING OF POPULAR RELIGIOUS CULTURE AND LITERATURE -- P. Chelkowski
1. Kashefi and the Rowzat al-shohada
CHAPTER 12: THE POPULAR LITERATURE OF THE TAJIKS -- R. Rahmoni
Songs for special occasions
Fables (tales about animals)
Tales about the realities of life
Edifying religious stories (qissa)
CHAPTER 13: ORAL POPULAR LITERATURE IN DARI PERSIAN OF AGHANISTAN -- M.A. Mills
1. Literacy and orality in Afghanistan
2. Chapbooks and oral storytelling
3. Research on oral culture in Afghanistan
4. Collections of folk literature
5. Studies by Western scholars
The study of popular literature in the Persian context
Primary literature: texts and translations
Selected bibliography in the Nart Epic
Ossetic texts referred to
Oral Literature of Iranian Languages: Kurdish, Pashto, Balochi, Ossetic, Persian and Tajik: Companion Volume II
：History of Persian Literature A, Vol XVIII
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