The Arabian Nights In English Literary Theory 1704 1910

Author : Muhsin al-Musawi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781433187827
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Arabian Nights in English Literary Theory (1704-1910) written by Muhsin al-Musawi and published by . This book was released on 2022-03-30 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Saree Makdisi
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191564966
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Arabian Nights in Historical Context written by Saree Makdisi and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2008-11-13 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Ulrich Marzolph
Publisher : ABC-CLIO
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Arabian Nights Encyclopedia written by Ulrich Marzolph and published by ABC-CLIO. This book was released on 2004-08-24 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Peter Caracciolo
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349196207
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Arabian Nights In English Literature written by Peter Caracciolo and published by Springer. This book was released on 1988-11-29 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Richard G. Hovannisian
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521573979
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Thousand and One Nights in Arabic Literature and Society written by Richard G. Hovannisian and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-04-13 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book successfully defies the view that The Thousand and One Nights is not worthy of serious literary debate.

Author : Wen-chin Ouyang
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317983939
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Perspectives on Arabian Nights written by Wen-chin Ouyang and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-02-04 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Ferial J. Ghazoul
Publisher : American University in Cairo Press
ISBN 13 : 1617975389
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nocturnal Poetics written by Ferial J. Ghazoul and published by American University in Cairo Press. This book was released on 1996-11-01 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Muhsin J. al-Musawi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108699774
Total Pages : 437 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Arabian Nights in Contemporary World Cultures written by Muhsin J. al-Musawi and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-08-26 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stories in the Thousand and One Nights, or the Arabian Nights, are familiar to many of us: from the tales of Aladdin, Sinbad the Sailor, Ali Baba and his forty thieves, to the framing story of Scheherazade telling these stories to her homicidal husband, Shahrayar. This book offers a rich and wide-ranging analysis of the power of this collection of tales that penetrates so many cultures and appeals to such a variety of predilections and tastes. It also explores areas that were left untouched, like the decolonization of the Arabian Nights, and its archaeologies. Unique in its excavation into inroads of perception and reception, Muhsin J. al-Musawi's book unearths means of connection with common publics and learned societies. Al-Musawi shows, as never before, how the Arabian Nights has been translated, appropriated, and authenticated or abused over time, and how its reach is so expansive as to draw the attention of poets, painters, illustrators, translators, editors, musicians, political scientists like Leo Strauss, and novelists like Michel Butor, James Joyce and Marcel Proust amongst others. Making use of documentaries, films, paintings, novels and novellas, poetry, digital forums and political jargon, this book offers nuanced understanding of the perennial charm and power of this collection.

Author : Ulrich Marzolph
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 185109640X
Total Pages : 950 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Arabian Nights Encyclopedia [2 volumes] written by Ulrich Marzolph and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2004-08-24 with total page 950 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Peter L. Caracciolo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781349196227
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Arabian Nights in English Literature written by Peter L. Caracciolo and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: