The Performance of the Comic in Arabic Hybridity. Cultural Heritage, Western Models and Postcolonial Hybridity.

From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Slightly gaping and yellowed binding with ballpoint pen marks on the back of the binding. Otherwise in very good condition. - Content: Said NAJI ( Ecole Normale Sup�eure, Fez): Comedy in the Arabic Cultural System: A Preliminary Critique; Lenin EL-RAMLY(Playwright, Egypt): Comedy in the East and The Art of Cunning: A Testimony; Karel BOULLART (Ghent University): Laughing Matters Revisited: The Universality and Relativity of Comicality; Michiel LEEZENBERG (Amsterdam University): Comedy Between Performativity and Polyphony: The Politics of Non-Serious Language IL Arabic Comic Literary Heritage and Western Modeling; Richard van LEEUWEN (Amsterdam University): Lies, Illusions and Authority: The Thousand and One Nights and Arabic Comic Theatre; Marvin CARLSON (Cuny University, New York): The Contribution of Yusuf Idris to Egyptian and World Comedy; Hassan MNIAI (Dhar El-Mahras, Fez): The Grotesque in Tawfiq Ai-Hakim's The Sultan�s Dilemma; Marina KOTZAMANI (University of the Peloponnesos): Performing Aristophanes� Lysistrata on the Arabic Stage; Eman KARMOETY (Alexandria University): Between Tragedy and Farce: Retelling the Story of two Devilish Sisters; Mieke KOLK (Amsterdam University) : Topographies of Desire. Recent Egyptian Drama and the Strategies of the Absurd; Khalid AMINE ( Abdelmalek Essaadi University, Tetouan): Performing Comicality in Moroccan Theatre: The postcolonial condition of hybridity and the third space; Farah YEGANEH TABRIZI (University of Qom, Iran) and Mehrdad RAYANI ( University of Theran, Iran) : Performing Siyah Bazi I Playing the Black: Satire and Social Relief in Historical Iran; Shams EL DIN YOUNIS (University of Sudan, Department of Music and Drama): The Genesis of Comedy and the Comic Conditions in Sudanese Theatre: A Short History; Freddy DECREUS (Ghent University): Traditional Western Interpretations of the Comic Hero vs. the Lacanian Challenge: The Case of Amphitruo; Loma HARDWICK (Open University, UK): The Comic in the Tragic: Parody and Critique in Modem Productions of Euripides� Hecuba; Stijn BUSSELS (University of Groningen/ The Netherlands): Splendid Cruelty: The Turk in Early Modem Court Entertainment in The Netherlands and France; Bram VAN OOSTVELDT (Ghent University): Orientalism, Despotism and �Govemmentality�: Rereading the Harem as a Domestic Space in the French Opera Comique Soliman II ou les trois Sultanes (1761).