Format:
Book
Title:
The Arabian Nights reader / edited by Ulrich Marzolph.
Publisher, Date:
Detroit : Wayne State University Press, c2006.
Description:
xvi, 373 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Series:
Series in fairy-tale studies
Series in fairy-tale studies.
Subjects:
Arabian nights.
Mille et une nuits.
Duizend-en-één-nacht (anoniem)
Oriëntalisme.
Receptie.
Other Author:
Marzolph, Ulrich.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
The growth of scholarly interest in the Arabian nights / Muhsin Jassim Ali -- A ninth-century fragment of the "Thousand nights": new light on the early history of the Arabian nights / Nabia Abbott -- The oldest documentary evidence for the title Alf laila wa-laila / Solomon D. Goitein -- Neglected conclusions of the Arabian nights: gleanings in forgotten and overlooked recensions / Heinz Grotzfeld -- The age of the Galland manuscript of the Nights: numismatic evidence for dating a manuscript? / Heinz Grotzfeld -- The sources of Galland's Nuits / Muhsin Mahdi -- Greek form elements in the Arabian Nights / Gustave E. von Grunebaum -- Romance as genre in The thousand and one nights / Peter Heath -- Narrative-men / Tzvetan Todorov -- An analysis of the "Tale of the three apples" from The thousand and one nights / Roger Allen -- Historical and mythical Baghdad in the tale of ʻAli b. Bakkār and Shams al-Nahār, or the resurgence of the imaginary / Jamel Eddine Bencheikh -- The monstrous births of "Aladdin" / Michael Cooperson -- An allegory from the Arabian nights: the city of brass / Andras Hamori -- From history to fiction: the tale told by the king's steward / Muhsin Mahdi -- Sinbad the Sailor: a commentary on the ethics of violence / Peter D. Molan -- Shahrazād feminist / Fedwa Malti-douglas.
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LCCN:
2006001977
ISBN:
0814332595 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780814332597 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Other Number:
63117036
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Current Holds:
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Control Number:
790382
Call Number:
398.22 A658
Course Reserves:
0
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