Eva Sallis

Sheherazade Through the Looking Glass (eBook, ePUB)

The Metamorphosis of the 'Thousand and One Nights'

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The Thousand and One Nights was reborn into an alien environment in 1704, its signs being received in a different way from their original meanings. Works of literature change as people and cultures who read them change. This study explores the

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 170
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136817526
• Artikelnr.: 39912036

Autorenporträt

Eva Sallis

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Introduction to the Nights; Chapter 2 Arabic Textual History of the Alf layla wa-layla; Chapter 3 English Translations of the Thousand and One Nights; Chapter 4 Reading the Arabian Nights; Chapter 5 Sheherazade/Shahraz?d: A Commentary on the Frame Tale1This Chapter makes use of a cross section rather than an exhaustive collection of frame tale variants. They are taken from the following: Muhsin Mahdi ed.
Kit?b alf layla wa-layla (Leiden: E. J. Brill
1984) (the Leiden text); Alf layla wa-layla (Beirut: al-Maktaba al-thaq?fiyya
1981); W. H. Macnaghten ed.
The Alif Laila
or Book of the Thousand Nights Commonly Known as the Arabian Nights Entertainments (Calcutta: W. Thacker
1839) (the Macnaghten text); Antoine Galland trans.
Les Mille et une Nuits Édouard Gauttier ed.
(Paris: Didot
1822);
Antoine Galland] The Arabian Nights Entertainments (Edinburgh: William P Nimmo
n. d.]); Richard Burton trans.
The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (Burton Club
1885]); Edward Forster trans.
The Arabian Nights (London: William Miller
1810); Husain Haddawy trans.
The Arabian Nights (London: W. W. Norton
1990); Kit?b alf layla wa-layla (Beirut: Maktaba al-?ay?t
1995); Kit?b alf layla wa-layla (Breslau
1824-43); Kit?b alf layla wa-layla (Bulaq
1835); Edward William Lane trans.
The Thousand and One Nights Commonly Called the Arabian Nights Entertainments (London: Charles Knight
1839); Enno Littmann trans.
Die Erzählungen aus den Tausendundein Nächten (1953; Frankfurt: Insel-Verlag
1976); Powys Mathers trans.
The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night Translated from French of J. C. Mardrus. (London: Routledge
1953); John Payne trans.
The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night (Villon Society
1884]). Unless otherwise indicated
all quotations are from Payne's translation.; Chapter 6 Readings of Selected Stories and Anecdotes;