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Date: 19 May 2003
From: "Joseph N. Bell" <joseph.bell at msk.uib.no>
Subject:New JAIS Article

Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies
<http://www.uib.no/jais>
<http://enlil.ff.cuni.cz/jais/jais.htm>

The prepublication version of Baian Rayhanova. "Mythological and
Folkloric Motifs in Syrian Prose: The Short Stories of Zakariyya Tamir"
(Adobe Acrobat 5.0 PDF file, 159 kB, pp. 1-12) has been posted
(abstract below). The HTML version is to be posted later. The first
page and every other page thereafter contains a faint gray
pre-publication watermark (on the screen and when printed on a laser
printer). If you have problems with the watermark, please let me know.

Two further articles are in preparation to close vol. 4. There is still
some room in vol. 5.

Best regards,

Joseph Bell

Abstract: The interest of Arab authors in ancient forms of artistic
thinking has grown considerably in recent times and is revealed in
different ways: through ethnographical studies, literary adaptations,
the publication of legends and myths, and the inclusion of mythological
and folkloric material in modern narrative texts. The present paper is
an attempt to analyze Zakariyya Tamir's short stories, which are among
the most outstanding products of Syrian literature, and to reveal the
function of well-known motifs such as the motif of the bewitched place,
the motif of the quest for treasure, the motif of the miraculous birth,
and others in his works.

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