One Thousand and One Arabian Nights

Aladdin, Ali Baba, Sinbad and the Tales of Scheherazade

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

With the famous stories of Sinbad, à â Ë The Merchant and the Genie', à â Ë The Three Applesà â â and hundreds more, this collection offers the storytelling genius of Scheherazade as she tells ever more ingenious stories, to save her life. Stories are selected from the original, medieval Thousand and One Nights and the many expanded tales from around the world.

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Produktdetails

• Gothic Fantasy
• Verlag: Flame Tree Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 480
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 162mm x 240mm x 42mm
• Gewicht: 758g
• ISBN-13: 9781839642388
• ISBN-10: 1839642386
• Artikelnr.: 59296851

Autorenporträt

Wen-chin Ouyang FBA is Professor of Arabic and Comparative Literature at SOAS, University of London. Born in Taiwan and raised in Libya, she completed her BA in Arabic at Tripoli University and PhD in Middle Eastern Studies at Columbia University in New York City. She is the author of Literary Criticism in Medieval Arabic-Islamic Culture: The Making of a Tradition (1997), Poetics of Love in the Arabic Novel (2012) and Politics of Nostalgia in the Arabic Novel (2013). She has also published widely on The Thousand and One Nights, often in comparison with classical and modern Arabic narrative traditions, European and Hollywood cinema, magic realism, and Chinese storytelling. She founded and co-edits Edinburgh Studies in Classical Arabic Literature. She has been the Editor-in-Chief of Middle Eastern Literatures since 2011. She also co-chairs the Editoral Committee of Legenda Studies in Comparative Literature. She was a member of the judging panel for Man Booker International Prize for Fiction 2013-15. A native speaker of Arabic and Chinese, she has been working towards Arabic-Chinese comparative literary and cultural studies, including Silk Road Studies.