Wayne State Univ Pr, Date: 2006-09-30. Paperback. Used: Good. 2006. Wayne State Univ Pr ISBN 0814332595 9780814332597 [US]

Wayne State University Press, Date: 2006-08-01. Paperback. Used:Good. 2006. Wayne State University Press ISBN 0814332595 9780814332597 [US]

Wayne State University Press. Paperback. New. 9x6x0. Wayne State University Press ISBN 0814332595 9780814332597 [US]

Paperback / softback. New. The Arabian Nights commands a place in world literature unrivaled by any other fictional work of ""Oriental"" provenance. This is a guide to the research inspired by this intricate work. Through a selection of 16 essays, it encompasses various research topics, from the ""Nights'"" early history to interpretations of such characters as Sheherazade. ISBN 0814332595 9780814332597 [GB]

ISBN10: 0814332595, ISBN13: 9780814332597, [publisher: Wayne State University Press] Softcover nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - 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 ...
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