From Library Journal
These 80 tales complement and supplement the 50 in Walker's first volume (Texas Tech Univ. Pr., 1990). Recorded in situ over the past 30 years from tellers of all ages and stations, they range in length from a few lines to 20 pages and cover a wide variety of forms: legends, fables, humor, fairy tales (with both European and Arabian Nights parallels), and variants or additions to biblical, Homeric, Sumerian, and other sources. Some oral history and religious tales rectify omissions in Volume 1. Guides to pronunciation and the Turkish terms that liberally flavor the text are appended, and an informative foreword and introduction point to areas for future scholarship. Combining the familiar and universal with the exotic and culturally specific, these readable tales should please general readers as well as scholars.
- Patricia Dooley, Univ. of Washington Extension, Seattle
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
- Patricia Dooley, Univ. of Washington Extension, Seattle
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
About the Author
Talat Sait Halman, Turkey's former Minister of Culture, then Ambassador for Cultural Affairs; now Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Literatures, New York University.
--This text refers to the
Hardcover
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