The Arabian Nights in English Literary Theory (1704-1910)
Title | The Arabian Nights in English Literary Theory (1704-1910) PDF eBook |
Author | Muhsin al-Musawi |
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Release | 2022-03-30 |
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ISBN | 9781433187827 |
This book focuses on debates and controversies around the Arabian Nights, which made significant cultural inroads throughout European cultures in 18th-19th century. The book analyzes modes and patterns of reading, response, engagement, commentary, translations, claims to authentication, abridgements, and illustrations.
The Arabian Nights in Historical Context
Title | The Arabian Nights in Historical Context PDF eBook |
Author | Saree Makdisi |
Publisher | OUP Oxford |
Pages | 353 |
Release | 2008-11-13 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0191564966 |
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.
Arabian Nights In English Literature
Title | Arabian Nights In English Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Caracciolo |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 372 |
Release | 1988-11-29 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1349196207 |
The Arabian Nights Encyclopedia
Title | The Arabian Nights Encyclopedia PDF eBook |
Author | Ulrich Marzolph |
Publisher | ABC-CLIO |
Pages | 502 |
Release | 2004-08-24 |
Genre | 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.
Arabian Nights in English Literature
Title | Arabian Nights in English Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Peter L. Caracciolo |
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Pages | |
Release | 1988 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781349196227 |
The Arabian Nights Encyclopedia [2 volumes]
Title | The Arabian Nights Encyclopedia [2 volumes] PDF eBook |
Author | Ulrich Marzolph |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Pages | 950 |
Release | 2004-08-24 |
Genre | 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.
The Arabian Nights in English Literature
Title | The Arabian Nights in English Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Peter L. Caracciolo |
Publisher | |
Pages | 330 |
Release | 1988-01-01 |
Genre | Arab countries |
ISBN | 9780312016081 |