The Arabian Nights Encyclopedia: The world of the Arabian nights
Author : Ulrich Marzolph
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 32,48 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Arabian nights
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Author : Ulrich Marzolph
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 32,48 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Arabian nights
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Author : Richard van Leeuwen
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Page : 9 pages
File Size : 19,98 MB
Release : 2004
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Author : Ulrich Marzolph
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 950 pages
File Size : 32,70 MB
Release : 2004-08-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 185109640X
The most comprehensive treatment of the Arabian Nights ever published, with more than 800 detailed encyclopedic entries and a wealth of authoritative essays and resources. The tales of the Arabian Nights have long been the focus of scholarly research and critique, but no English language work has ever attempted an all-embracing treatment of them. The fruit of years of research, The Arabian Nights Encyclopedia is the first comprehensive reference work introducing both the Arabian Nights and the context of their genesis and aftermath in Near Eastern, European, and world culture. Editors Ulrich Marzolph, one of the world's foremost scholars of Near Eastern narrative culture, and Richard van Leeuwen, a prominent scholar of the Arabian Nights, present detailed, authoritative, and up-to-date research on virtually all aspects of the tales, including major protagonists, themes, important translations, textual history, adaptations, reworkings, works inspired by the Arabian Nights, and aspects of literary theory, and provide extensive bibliographies for each tale. In addition to the 800+ encyclopedic entries and numerous essays, the work introduces research that has not previously been published, making it an invaluable resource to scholars, educators, students, and the general public, as well as an essential addition to the core collection of academic and public libraries.
Author : Ulrich Marzolph
Publisher : ABC-CLIO
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 48,66 MB
Release : 2004-08-24
Category : Literary Criticism
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This comprehensive reference on the "Arabian Nights" presents detailed research on virtually all aspects of the tales, including major protagonists, themes, important translations, textual history, adaptations, reworkings, works inspired by the tales and aspects of literary theory.
Author : Ulrich Marzolph
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 18,19 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780814332597
The Arabian Nights commands a place in world literature unrivaled by any other fictional work of "Oriental" provenance. Bringing together Indian, Iranian, and Arabic tradition, this collection of tales became popular in the Western world during the eighteenth century and has since exerted a profound influence on theater, opera, music, painting, architecture, and literature. The Arabian Nights Reader offers an authoritative guide to the research inspired by this rich and intricate work. Through a selection of sixteen influential and currently relevant essays, culled from decades of scholarship, this volume encompasses the most salient research topics to date, from the Nights' early history to interpretations of such famous characters as Sheherazade. While serious research on the Nights began early in the nineteenth century, some of the most puzzling aspects of the collection's complex history and character were solved only quite recently. This volume's topics reflect the makings of a transnational narrative: evidence of a ninth-century version of the Nights, the work's circulation among booksellers in twelfth-century Cairo, the establishment of a "canonical" text, the sources used by the French translator who introduced the Nights to the West and the dating of this French translation, the influence of Greek literature on the Nights, the genre of romance, the relationship between narration and survival within the plots, reception of the Nights from the nineteenth century onward, interpretations of single stories from the collection, the universal nature of the sexual politics surrounding Sheherazade, and the repercussion of the Nights in modern Arabic literature. As this collection demonstrates, the Arabian Nights helped shape Western perceptions of the "Orient" as the quintessential "Other" while serving to inspire Western creativity. The research presented here not only deepens our insight into this great work but also heightens our awareness of the powerful communal forces of transnational narrative.
Author : Ulrich Marzolph
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Page : 478 pages
File Size : 23,23 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Arabian nights
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Author : Hanan Al-Shaykh
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 40,67 MB
Release : 2011-08-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1408826046
The Arab world's greatest folk stories re-imagined by the acclaimed Lebanese novelist Hanan al-Shaykh, published to coincide with the world tour of a magnificent musical and theatrical production directed by Tim Supple
Author : Muhsin Mahdi
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 19,31 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780393313673
The tales portray a world of magic, wish-fulfillment and pleasure, depicting the marriage of the supernatural to the ordinary and the sacred to the profane.
Author : Robert Irwin
Publisher : Viking
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 36,7 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Fiction
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The Arabian Nights: A Companion guides the reader into this celebrated labyrinth of storytelling. It traces the development of the stories from prehistoric India and Pharaonic Egypt to modern times. It explores the history of the translation, and explains the ways in which its contents have been added to, plagiarized and imitated. Above all, the book uses the stories as a guide to the social history and the counterculture of the medieval Near East and the world of the storyteller, the snake charmer, the burglar, the sorcerer, the drug addict, the treasure hunter and the adulterer.
Author : Ulrich Marzolph
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 15,7 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Arabian nights
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