caa a22 4500 378942565 CHVBK 20180305123656.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161128e20040722xx s 000 0 ger 10.1515/fabl.2004.45.3-4.294 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)gruyter-10.1515/fabl.2004.45.3-4.294 Mills Margaret A. 1. Columbus, Ohio. Alf Laylah Farsi in Performance: Afghanistan, 1975 [Elektronische Daten] [Margaret A. Mills] Considerable scholarship has developed tracing possible oral sources for important examples of early written literature, as well as the observable features of oral narrative style and the processes of oral performance and transmission in various traditions and settings. The specific changes in a written narrative, when it turns, or returns, to oral performance and transmission, have not received as much attention. This paper examines one case of transformation of a story from Alf Laylah in its nineteenth century literary Persian translation, and thence into an oral performance recorded in pre-war Afghanistan. The comparison identifies elements of the then-current oral folktale style in Dari (Afghan Persian), both in plot structure and gross content, and in surface stylistics, that the teller(s) introduced into the performance of a tale for which the present performer identified a specific published edition as his source. © Walter de Gruyter Literary studies: general nationallicence Literary theory nationallicence Novels, other prose & writers nationallicence Fabula Walter de Gruyter 45/3-4(2004-07-22), 294-310 0014-6242 45:3-4<294 2004 45 fabl https://doi.org/10.1515/fabl.2004.45.3-4.294 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1515/fabl.2004.45.3-4.294 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Mills Margaret A. 1. Columbus, Ohio NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Fabula Walter de Gruyter 45/3-4(2004-07-22), 294-310 0014-6242 45:3-4<294 2004 45 fabl CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-gruyter