Scheherazadean

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

Scheherazade +‎ -ean

Adjective

Scheherazadean (comparative more Scheherazadean, superlative most Scheherazadean)

  1. Of or relating to the fictional storyteller Scheherazade.
    • 1994, Robert Scott Leventhal, Reading After Foucault:
      Instead of following the Scheherazadean strategy of delaying death, such suicidal narratives are a means of hastening the narrator's end.
    • 2000, Darius Cooper, Dudley Andrew, William Rothman, The Cinema of Satyajit Ray: Between Tradition and Modernity:
      Ray makes her determination all the more sensuously Scheherazadean when she calls for her servant Hiria and demands that the old woman come and tell her a story.

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