Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xii, 423 pages)
ISBN:
9781108593847
,
9781108474856
,
9781108465557
Content:
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 fo
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 20 Aug 2021)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781108474856
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Mūsawī, Muḥsin Ǧāsim al-, 1944 - The Arabian Nights in contemporary world cultures Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2021 ISBN 9781108474856
Language:
English
Keywords:
Alf laila wa-laila
;
Rezeption
;
Kultur
DOI:
10.1017/9781108593847
