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Enlightenment Orientalism : Resisting the Rise of the Novel
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ISBN: 1283317028 9786613317025 0226024504 9780226024509 9781283317023 9780226024486 9780226024493 0226024482 0226024490 6613317020 Year: 2011 Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press,

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Srinivas Aravamudan here reveals how Oriental tales, pseudo-ethnographies, sexual fantasies, and political satires took Europe by storm during the eighteenth century. Naming this body of fiction Enlightenment Orientalism, he poses a range of urgent questions that uncovers the interdependence of Oriental tales and domestic fiction, thereby challenging standard scholarly narratives about the rise of the novel. More than mere exoticism, Oriental tales fascinated ordinary readers as well as intellectuals, taking the fancy of philosophers such as Voltaire, Montesquieu, and Diderot in France, and writers such as Defoe, Swift, and Goldsmith in Britain. Aravamudan shows that Enlightenment Orientalism was a significant movement that criticized irrational European practices even while sympathetically bridging differences among civilizations. A sophisticated reinterpretation of the history of the novel, Enlightenment Orientalism is sure to be welcomed as a landmark work in eighteenth-century studies.


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Marvellous thieves
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ISBN: 9780674545052 9780674973725 0674973720 0674545052 0674973771 9780674973770 Year: 2017 Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts

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Although many of its stories originated centuries ago in the Middle East, the 1001 Nights is regarded as a classic of world literature by virtue of the seminal French and English translations produced in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Supporting the suspicion that the story collection is more Parisian than Persian, some of its most famous tales, including the stories of Aladdin and Ali Baba, appear nowhere in the original sources. Yet as befits a world where magic lamps may conceal a jinni and fabulous treasures lie just beyond secret doors, the truth of the Nights is richer than standard criticism suggests. Marvellous Thieves recovers the cross-cultural encounters--the collaborations, borrowings, and acts of literary larceny--that produced the 1001 Nights in European languages. Ranging from the coffeehouses of Aleppo to the salons of Paris, from colonial Calcutta to Bohemian London, Paulo Lemos Horta introduces readers to the poets and scholars, pilgrims and charlatans who made crucial but largely unacknowledged contributions to this most famous of story collections. Each version of the Nights betrays the distinctive cultural milieu in which it was produced and the workshop atmosphere of its compilation. Time and again, Horta shows, stories were retold and elaborate commentaries added to remake the Nights in accordance with the personalities and ambitions of the storytellers and writers. Untangling the intricate web of invention and plagiarism that ensnares the Nights, Horta rehabilitates the voices hidden in its long history--voices that mirror the endless potential of Shahrazad's stories to proliferate.--


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Whatever gets you through the night
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ISBN: 1283033518 9786613033512 1400838010 9781400838011 9781283033510 9780691143378 0691143374 Year: 2011 Publisher: Princeton Princeton University Press

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"I fear each passing night that I will not receive my maintenance dose of suspense, and then I will cease to exist."--Whatever Gets You through the Night Whatever Gets You through the Night is an irreverent and deeply funny retelling of the Arabian Nights and a wildly inspired exploration of the timeless art of storytelling. Award-winning writer Andrei Codrescu reimagines how Sheherezade saved Baghdad's virgins and her own life through a heroic feat of storytelling--one that kept the Persian king Sharyar hanging in agonizing narrative and erotic suspense for 1001 nights. For Sheherezade, the end of either suspense or curiosity means death, but Codrescu keeps both alive in this entertaining tale of how she learned to hold a king in thrall, setting with her endless invention an unsurpassable example for all storytellers across the ages. Liberated and mischievous, Codrescu's Sheherezade is as charming as she is shrewd--and so is the story Codrescu tells.


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On the art of medieval Arabic literature
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ISBN: 1400869358 9781400869350 9780691618364 0691618364 Year: 1974 Publisher: Princeton, New Jersey

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In applying the standards of modern literary criticism to medieval Arabic literature, Andras Hamori concentrates on those aspects of the literature that appear most alien to modern Western taste: the limitation of themes, the sedimentation with conventions, and the use of elusive patterns of composition.The first part of the book approaches Arabic literature from the historical point of view, concentrating on the transformations in poetic genres and poetic attitudes towards time and society in the literature between the sixth and the tenth centuries. The problems of poetic technique are then discussed, with special emphasis on poetic unity and the use of conventions. The third part of the book deals with methods of composition in prose through an examination of the orders and disorders in two tales from the Arabian Nights.Originally published in 1974.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.


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Scheherazade's children
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ISBN: 147983792X 9781479837922 1479840319 9781479840311 9781479830756 1479830755 9781479840311 9781479857098 1479857092 Year: 2013 Publisher: New York New York University Press

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Scheherazade’s Children gathers together leading scholars to explore the reverberations of the tales of the Arabian Nights across a startlingly wide and transnational range of cultural endeavors. The contributors, drawn from a wide array of disciplines, extend their inquiries into the book’s metamorphoses on stage and screen as well as in literature—from India to Japan, from Sanskrit mythology to British pantomime, from Baroque opera to puppet shows. Their highly original research illuminates little-known manifestations of the Nights, and provides unexpected contexts for understanding the book’s complex history. Polemical issues are thereby given unprecedented and enlightening interpretations. Organized under the rubrics of Translating, Engaging, and Staging, these essays view the Nights corpus as a uniquely accretive cultural bundle that absorbs the works upon which it has exerted influence. In this view, the Arabian Nights is a dynamic, living and breathing cross-cultural phenomenon that has left its mark on fields as disparate as the European novel and early Indian cinema. While scholarly, the writers’ approach is also lively and entertaining, and the book is richly illustrated with unusual materials to deliver a sparkling and highly original exploration of the Arabian Nights’ radiating influence on world literature, performance, and culture.


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The sexual world of the Arabian Nights
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ISBN: 1108698344 1108630278 1108675271 1108425364 1108442250 Year: 2018 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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From the stories of wives and their lovers to those of kings and their conquests, to the overarching story of Shahrazad and Shahryar, the tales of the Arabian Nights have offered countless audiences entertainment and enjoyment as well as serving as cautionary stories. An outstanding piece of world literature, the Arabian Nights provide a lively and interesting way of exploring aspects of sexuality, romance, gender, culture, wealth, and politics. Looking at a wide range of the tales, David Ghanim offers a rigorous exploration of their profound sexuality: looking at both the context in which they were written and organised, as well as their legacy. By including accounts of heterosexuality, homosexuality, cuckoldry, insatiable lust, promiscuity, rape, incest, bestiality, demonic sexuality, and erotica, Ghanim highlights the complexity and dynamism of medieval sexuality, the active role of women in sexual activities, and the prevailing positive outlook on sexual liaison and gender mixing.


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The thousand and one nights : sources and transformations in literature, art, and science
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ISBN: 9004429034 900442895X Year: 2020 Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill,

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The Thousand and One Nights does not fall into a scholarly canon or into the category of popular literature. It takes its place within a middle literature that circulated widely in medieval times. The Nights gradually entered world literature through the great novels of the day and through music, cinema and other art forms. Material inspired by the Nights has continued to emerge from many different countries, periods, disciplines and languages, and the scope of the Nights has continued to widen, making the collection a universal work from every point of view. The essays in this volume scrutinize the expanse of sources for this monumental work of Arabic literature and follow the trajectory of the Nights ’ texts, the creative, scholarly commentaries, artistic encounters and relations to science. Contributors: Ibrahim Akel, Rasoul Aliakbari, Daniel Behar, Aboubakr Chraïbi, Anne E. Duggan, William Granara, Rafika Hammoudi, Dominique Jullien, Abdelfattah Kilito, Magdalena Kubarek, Michael James Lundell, Ulrich Marzolph, Adam Mestyan, Eyüp Özveren, Marina Paino, Daniela Potenza, Arafat Abdur Razzaque, Ahmed Saidy, Johannes Thomann and Ilaria Vitali.


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The Arabian Nights in contemporary world cultures : global commodification, translation, and the culture industry
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ISBN: 1108474853 9781108474856 1108699774 110857713X 1108593844 9781108593847 9781108465557 Year: 2021 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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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

Les "Mille et une nuits" d'Antoine Galland
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ISBN: 2130392091 9782130392095 Year: 1986 Volume: vol *32 Publisher: Paris : PUF - Presses Universitaires de France,

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Chef-d'œuvre littéralement invisible, Les Mille et une nuits d'Antoine Galland connaissent depuis bientôt trois siècles un succès, une célébrité et une influence qui n'ont d'égaux que l'aveuglement et le silence dont elles souffrent auprès de la critique et de l'histoire littéraires. Surprenante destinée, dont les causes les plus efficaces se révèlent être aussi les moins valables. Ce recueil de "Contes arabes", trop souvent considéré avec dédain comme une "simple traduction", frappe au contraire par son originalité. Reléguées d'ordinaire au rang de contes de nourrice, les histoires de Schéhérazade relèvent en réalité d'un art consommé et subtil, dont l'effet bénéfique sur le sultan qui les écoute (comme sur le lecteur qui les lit) est exemplaire. Modèle raffiné de la littérature du plaisir (ou de la littérature de plaisance), fidèle au goût et à l'esthétique de son temps, le chef-d'œuvre de Galland demande à devenir enfin visible ; de même que demande à être enfin levée l'hypothèque que la tradition persiste encore trop souvent à faire peser sur la fonction divertissante de toute littérature. C'est cette double réhabilitation qui est proposée ici, car l'une ne va pas sans l'autre. Le résultat souhaité est de voir Les Mille et une nuits et Galland mis enfin à la place qui leur revient : la première parmi les écrits et les écrivains de la fin du règne de Louis XIV.

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Theory of literary translation --- French literature --- Galland, Antoine --- Galland, Antoine, --- Arabian nights --- Translations into French --- History and criticism. --- 840 "16" GALLAND, ANTOINE --- Franse literatuur--17e eeuw. Periode 1600-1699--GALLAND, ANTOINE --- 840 "16" GALLAND, ANTOINE Franse literatuur--17e eeuw. Periode 1600-1699--GALLAND, ANTOINE --- Galland, --- Hikajat 1001 malem --- Hikayat 1001 malem --- Hikajat sariboe satoe malem --- Sariboe satoe malem --- Seribu satu malam --- Sen-ichiya monogatari --- Gafu issen ichiya monogatari --- Alf laylah wa-laylah --- Thousand nights and one night --- Thousand and one nights --- Alif laila --- Tysi︠a︡cha i odna nochʹ --- Tausendundeine Nacht --- Tisíc a jedná noc --- Hikayat sa-ribu satu malam --- I chʻien ling i yeh --- Book of the thousand nights and one night --- Mille et une nuits --- Book of a thousand nights and a night --- Thousand nights and a night --- Elef lailah ṿe-lailah --- Tales of the Arabian nights --- 1001 Nacht --- Mille e una notte --- Arabiyan naito --- One thousand and one nights --- 1001 nights --- Arabian nights entertainments --- Hazar ew mēk gisherner --- Cartea celor o mie și una nopți --- Mie și una nopți --- Cartea celor o 1001 nopți --- Elf leyle ve leyle --- Alf sakhar ve sakhar --- Duizend en één nacht. --- Galland (Antoine). --- Mille et une nuits. --- Galand, A. --- GALLAND (ANTOINE), ORIENTALISTE FRANCAIS, 1646-1715 --- LES MILLE ET UNE NUITS --- Galland, Antoine, 1646-1715

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