New Perspectives on Arabian Nights (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Ouyang, Wen-Chin; Gelder, Geert Jan van

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This multi-disciplinary comparative study of the transformation of a variety of The Arabian Nights stories in a cross-cultural context, brings together a number of disciplines and subject areas to look at the workings of narrative.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Februar 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317983934
• Artikelnr.: 40467905

Autorenporträt

Wen-Chin Ouyang is a lecturer in Arabic at the School of Oriental and African Studies. She works primarily on narrative and storytelling in classical and modern Arabic Literature. Geert Jan Van Gelder is Laudian Professor of Arabic in the Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Whose Story Is It? Sindbad the Sailor in literature and film,
Wen-Chin Ouyang; Chapter 2 Texts of the Arabian Nights and Ideological
Variations, Aboubakr Chraïbi, Natasha Romanova; Chapter 3 A Caliph and his
Public Relations, Julia Bray; Chapter 4 Narrative Strategies in Popular
Literature: ideology and ethics in tales from the Arabian Nights and other
collections, Ulrich Marzolph; Chapter 5 The Art of Interruption: The
Thousand and One Nights and Jan Potócki, Richard Van Leeuwen; Chapter 6 The
House of Fiction and le jardin anglo-chinois, Peter L. Caracciolo; Chapter
7 Traces of the Thousand and One Nights in Borges, Evelyn Fishburn; Chapter
8 A Thousand and One Nights at the Movies, Robert Irwin; Chapter 9 Thousand
and One Nights at the Komedie Stamboel: Popular theatre and travelling
stories in colonial Southeast Asia, Matthew Isaac Cohen; Chapter 10
Emboldening Dinarzad: the Thousand and One Nights in contemporary fiction,
Stephanie Jones; Chapter 11 Afterword: Beyond the Project;