Scheherazadean

English Alternative forms en Scheherazadian Etymology From en Scheherazade ean. Adjective Of or relating to the fictional storyteller Scheherazade. en 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. en 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. Further reading Scheherazadean, Scheherazadian en eponyms