A Motif Index Of The Thousand And One Nights

Author : Hasan M. El-Shamy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 704 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Motif Index of The Thousand and One Nights written by Hasan M. El-Shamy and published by . This book was released on 2006-12-21 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1704 the French Orientalist Antoin Galland introduced to the Western world a translation of The Thousand and One Nights. Over the course of two subsequent centuries, numerous editions followed. Many of these, like Galland's, included texts of stories not found in the indigenous manuscripts of the Nights but selected by the European editors from other literary and oral collections of ordinary folktales and legends. Thus, the original work acquired a Western designation as The Arabian Nights, a title unknown among the masses in Arab lands. Now, three centuries later, original publication of The Thousand and One Nights is being celebrated with widespread, renewed interest in the work. Hasan El-Shamy's motif-index, based on an authentic folk edition of Alf laylah wa laylah, provides scholars of various fields accurate information about the content of this classic piece of Arabic folk tradition.

Author : Hasan M. El-Shamy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 718 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Motif Index of The Thousand and One Nights written by Hasan M. El-Shamy and published by . This book was released on 2006-12-21 with total page 718 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1704 the French Orientalist Antoin Galland introduced to the Western world a translation of The Thousand and One Nights. Over the course of two subsequent centuries, numerous editions followed. Many of these, like Galland's, included texts of stories not found in the indigenous manuscripts of the Nights but selected by the European editors from other literary and oral collections of ordinary folktales and legends. Thus, the original work acquired a Western designation as The Arabian Nights, a title unknown among the masses in Arab lands. Now, three centuries later, original publication of The Thousand and One Nights is being celebrated with widespread, renewed interest in the work. Hasan El-Shamy's motif-index, based on an authentic folk edition of Alf laylah wa laylah, provides scholars of various fields accurate information about the content of this classic piece of Arabic folk tradition.

Author : Paulo Lemos Horta
Publisher : Modern Language Association
ISBN 13 : 1603295984
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Approaches to Teaching the Thousand and One Nights written by Paulo Lemos Horta and published by Modern Language Association. This book was released on 2023-10-10 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Thousand and One Nights, composed in Arabic from the eighth to the fourteenth centuries, is one of the world's most widely circulated and influential collections of stories. To help instructors introduce the tales to students, this volume provides historical context and discusses the many transformations of the stories in a variety of cultures. Among the topics covered are the numerous translations and their impact on the tales' reception; various genres represented by the tales; gender, race, and slavery; and adaptations of the stories in films, graphic novels, and other media across the world and under conditions of both imperialism and postcolonialism. The essays serve instructors in subjects such as medieval literature, world literature, and Middle and Near Eastern studies and make a case for teaching the Thousand and One Nights in courses on identity and race.

Author : Ibrahim Akel
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004429034
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Thousand and One Nights: Sources and Transformations in Literature, Art, and Science written by Ibrahim Akel and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-04-28 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this volume scrutinize the expanse of sources for The Arabian Nights or The Thousand and One Nights in all of their static and dynamic complexity. They follow the trajectory of the Nights’ texts, the creative, scholarly commentaries, artistic encounters and relations to science.

Author : Hasan M. El-Shamy
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253344472
Total Pages : 1302 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Types of the Folktale in the Arab World written by Hasan M. El-Shamy and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 1302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only demographically oriented tale-type index for folktales of the Arab world

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Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141943505
Total Pages : 1008 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Arabian Nights: Tales of 1,001 Nights written by and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2010-02-04 with total page 1008 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every night for three years the vengeful King Shahriyar sleeps with a different virgin, executing her the next morning. To end this brutal pattern and to save her own life, the vizier's daughter, Shahrazad, begins to tell the king stories of adventure, love, riches and wonder - tales of mystical lands peopled with princes and hunchbacks, the Angel of Death and magical spirits, tales of the voyages of Sindbad, of Ali Baba outwitting a band of forty thieves and of jinnis trapped in rings and in lamps. The sequence of stories will last 1,001 nights.

Author : [Anonymus AC03416919]
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781570853227
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book Motif-Index of Folk Literature : past masters ; humanities databases, full text written by [Anonymus AC03416919] and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This database is an electronic edition of the Motif-Index of Folk-Literature, revised and enlarged by Stith Thompson, (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1955).

Author : Philip F. Kennedy
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479857092
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Scheherazade's Children written by Philip F. Kennedy and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2013-11-08 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scheherazade’s Children gathers together leading scholars to explore the reverberations of the tales of the Arabian Nights across a startlingly wide and transnational range of cultural endeavors. The contributors, drawn from a wide array of disciplines, extend their inquiries into the book’s metamorphoses on stage and screen as well as in literature—from India to Japan, from Sanskrit mythology to British pantomime, from Baroque opera to puppet shows. Their highly original research illuminates little-known manifestations of the Nights, and provides unexpected contexts for understanding the book’s complex history. Polemical issues are thereby given unprecedented and enlightening interpretations. Organized under the rubrics of Translating, Engaging, and Staging, these essays view the Nights corpus as a uniquely accretive cultural bundle that absorbs the works upon which it has exerted influence. In this view, the Arabian Nights is a dynamic, living and breathing cross-cultural phenomenon that has left its mark on fields as disparate as the European novel and early Indian cinema. While scholarly, the writers’ approach is also lively and entertaining, and the book is richly illustrated with unusual materials to deliver a sparkling and highly original exploration of the Arabian Nights’ radiating influence on world literature, performance, and culture.

Author : Benjamin B. Olshin
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004352724
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lost Knowledge written by Benjamin B. Olshin and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-02-19 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lost Knowledge: The Concept of Vanished Technologies and Other Human Histories investigates early texts that speak of sophisticated technologies millennia ago that became obscured over time or were destroyed with the civilizations that had created them.

Author : Paula Sanders
Publisher : American University in Cairo Press
ISBN 13 : 1617972304
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Creating Medieval Cairo written by Paula Sanders and published by American University in Cairo Press. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that the historic city we know as Medieval Cairo was created in the nineteenth century by both Egyptians and Europeans against a background of four overlapping political and cultural contexts: the local Egyptian, Anglo-Egyptian, Anglo-Indian, and Ottoman imperial milieux. Addressing the interrelated topics of empire, local history, religion, and transnational heritage, historian Paula Sanders shows how Cairo's architectural heritage became canonized in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The book also explains why and how the city assumed its characteristically Mamluk appearance and situates the activities of the European-dominated architectural preservation committee (known as the Comité) within the history of religious life in nineteenth-century Cairo. Offering fresh perspectives and keen historical analysis, this volume examines the unacknowledged colonial legacy that continues to inform the practice of and debates over preservation in Cairo.