The Arabian Nights In Historical Context
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The Arabian Nights In Historical Context
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Author : Saree Makdisi
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2008-11-13
The Arabian Nights In Historical Context written by Saree Makdisi and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-11-13 with Literary Criticism categories.
Alf layla wa layla (known in English as A Thousand and One Nights or The Arabian Nights) changed the world on a scale unrivalled by any other literary text. Inspired by a fourteenth-century Syrian manuscript, the appearance of Antoine Galland's twelve-volume Mille et Une Nuits in English translation (1704-1717), closely followed by the Grub Street English edition, drew the text into European circulation. Over the following three hundred years, a widely heterogeneous series of editions, compilations, translations, and variations circled the globe to reveal the absorption of The Arabian Nights into English, Continental, and global literatures, and its transformative return to modern Arabic literature, where it now enjoys a degree of prominence that it had never attained during the classical period. Beginning with a thorough introduction situating The Arabian Nights in its historical and cultural contexts-and offering a fresh examination of the text's multiple locations in the long history of modern Orientalism—this collection of essays by noted scholars from 'East', 'West', and in-between reassesses the influence of the Nights in Enlightenment and Romantic literature, as well as the text's vigorous after-life in the contemporary Arabic novel.
The Arabian Nights Their Best Known Tales Annotated
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Author : Nora Archibald Smith
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-01-02
The Arabian Nights Their Best Known Tales Annotated written by Nora Archibald Smith and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-02 with categories.
Differentiated book- It has a historical context with research of the time-This book contains a historical context, where past events or the study and narration of these events are examined. The historical context refers to the circumstances and incidents surrounding an event. This context is formed by everything that, in some way, influences the event when it happens. A fact is always tied to its time: that is, to its characteristics. Therefore, when analyzing events that took place tens, hundreds or thousands of years ago, it is essential to know the historical context to understand them. Otherwise, we would be analyzing and judging what happened in a totally different era with a current perspective.The Arabian Nights, Their Best-known Tales by Nora Archibald Smith.Perhaps little excuse is needed for any new selection of the famous "Tales of a Thousand and One Nights," provided it is representative and dignified enough to enlist a new army of youth readers. Of the two hundred and sixty-four baffling and unparalleled stories, the true lover can barely forgive one, but there must always be favorites, even among these. We have chosen some of the most delicious, in our opinion; some, too, that particularly attracted the genius of the artist. If, attracted by our choice and the beauty of the images, we managed to attract a few thousand more true lovers to the source book, we will have done our humble turn
The Arabian Nights In Transnational Perspective
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Author : Ulrich Marzolph
language : en
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Release Date : 2007
The Arabian Nights In Transnational Perspective written by Ulrich Marzolph and has been published by Wayne State University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Fiction categories.
In a 2004 meeting marking the Arabian Nights' tercentennial at the Herzog August Library in Wolfenb'ttel, Germany, nineteen international scholars presented their work on the transnational aspects of the Arabian Nights. This volume collects their papers, whose topics range from the history of the Arabian Nights manuscripts, to positioning the Nights in modern and postmodern discourse, to the international reception of the Nights in written and oral tradition. Essays are arranged in five sections. The first section contains essays on Galland's translation and its "continuation" by Jacques Cazotte. The second section treats specific characteristics of the Nights, including manuscript tradition, the transformations of a specific narrative pattern occurring in the Nights and other works of medieval Arabic literature, the topic of siblings in the Nights, and the political thought mirrored in the Nights. The essays in the third section deal with framing in relation to the classical Indian collection Panchatantra and as a general cultural technique, with particular attention to storytelling in the oral tradition of the Indian Ocean islands off the African coast. The two concluding and largest sections focus on various aspects of the transnational reception of the Nights. While the essays of the fourth section predominantly discuss written or learned tradition in Hawai'i, Swahili-speaking East Africa, Turkey, Iran, German cinema, and modern Arabic literature, the fifth section encompasses essays on the reception and role of the Nights in the oral tradition of areas as wide apart as Sicily, Greece, Afganistan, and Balochistan. A preface by Ulrich Marzolph unifies this volume. In view of the tremendous impact of the Arabian Nights on Western creative imagination, this collection will appeal to literary scholars of many backgrounds.
Nocturnal Poetics
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Author : Ferial J. Ghazoul
language : en
Publisher: American University in Cairo Press
Release Date : 1996-11-01
Nocturnal Poetics written by Ferial J. Ghazoul and has been published by American University in Cairo Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-11-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
The Book of a Thousand and One Nights, better known as The Arabian Nights, is a classic of world literature and the most universally known work of Arabic narrative. Although much has been written about it, Professor Ghazoul's analysis is the first to apply modern critical methodology to the study of this intricate and much-admired literary masterpiece. The author draws on a wealth of critical tools -- medieval Arabic aesthetics and poetics, mythology and folklore, allegory and comedy, postmodern literary criticism, and formal and structural analysis -- to explain the specific genius of the The Arabian Nights. The author describes and examines the internal cohesion of the book, establishing its morphology and revealing the dialectics of the frame-story and enframed cycles of narrative. She discusses various forms of narrative -- folk epics, animal fables, Sindbad voyages, and demon stories -- and analyzes them in relation to narrative works from India, Europe, and the Americas. Covering an impressive range of writings, from ancient Indian classics to the works of Shakespeare and the modern writers Jorge Luis Borges and John Barth, she places The Arabian Nights in the context of an ongoing storytelling tradition and reveals its influence on world literature.
The Arabian Nights Encyclopedia
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Author : Ulrich Marzolph
language : en
Publisher: ABC-CLIO
Release Date : 2004-08-24
The Arabian Nights Encyclopedia written by Ulrich Marzolph and has been published by ABC-CLIO this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-08-24 with Literary Criticism categories.
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.
The Thousand And One Nights
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Author : Arabian Nights
language : en
Publisher: Legare Street Press
Release Date : 2023-07-18
The Thousand And One Nights written by Arabian Nights and has been published by Legare Street Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-07-18 with categories.
This timeless collection of stories offers a fascinating glimpse into the rich and vibrant culture of medieval Arabia. From fantastical tales of magic and adventure to poignant love stories and moral fables, The Thousand and One Nights has something for everyone. This edition features an insightful introduction by J. Scott that sheds light on the historical and cultural context of the stories themselves. The perfect book for anyone interested in world literature and the history of the Islamic world. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
New Perspectives On Arabian Nights
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Author : Wen-chin Ouyang
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-02-04
New Perspectives On Arabian Nights written by Wen-chin Ouyang and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-02-04 with Literary Criticism categories.
Adopting a multi-disciplinary approach, this comparative study of a selection of The Arabian Nights stories in a cross-cultural context, brings together a number of disciplines and subject areas to examine the workings of narrative. It predominantly focuses on the ways in which the Arabian Nights have transformed as its stories have travelled across historical eras, cultures, genres and media. Departing from the familiar approaches of influence and textual studies, this book locates its central inquiry in the theoretical questions surrounding the workings of ideology, genre and genre ideology in shaping and transforming stories. The ten essays included in this volume respond to a general question, ‘what can the transformation of Nights stories in their travels tell us about narrative and storytelling, and their function in a particular culture?’ Following a Nights story in its travels from past to present, from Middle East to Europe and from literature to film, the book engages in close comparative analyses of ideological variations found in a variety of texts. These analyses allow new modes of reading texts and make it possible to breach new horizons for thinking about narrative. This Book was previously published as a special issue of Middle Eastern Literatures entitled Ideological Variations and Narrative Horizons: New Perspectives on Arabian Nights.
Remarks On The Arabian Nights Entertainments
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Author : Richard Hole
language : en
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Release Date : 2008-10-01
Remarks On The Arabian Nights Entertainments written by Richard Hole and has been published by Kessinger Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-10-01 with Law categories.
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
One Thousand And One Nights
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Author : Hanan Al-Shaykh
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2011-08-15
One Thousand And One Nights written by Hanan Al-Shaykh and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-08-15 with Fiction categories.
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
The Arabian Nights
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Author : Anonymous
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-06-27
The Arabian Nights written by Anonymous and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-27 with Fiction categories.
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