Endless Inspiration
One Thousand and One Nights in Comparative Perspective
Published on 22. June 2020
350 pages
978-1-4632-4187-2 (ISBN)
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Digital original
Language
English
Place of publication
Piscataway, NJ
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
Edition type
Digital original
File size
5,93 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-4632-4187-2 (9781463241872)
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Content
- Intro
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Introduction
- SECTION 1: LITERATURE
- Shahrazad in Twentieth-Century Fiction: Approaches and Considerations
- "We Are Not in Baghdad Anymore": Textual Travels and Hausa Intertextual Adaptation of Selected Tales of One Thousand and One Nights in Northern Nigeria
- Enchanted Storytelling: Mu?ammad Khu?ayyir between Borges and Shahrazad
- Two Perspectives, One Shahrazad: Turkish Poetry and One Thousand and One Nights
- SECTION 2. MANUSCRIPTS
- Source of Inspiration, Matter of Translation, Joseph von Hammer and the 1001 Nights
- 'Oh Leader of Women in the World, oh Shahrazad!' The Ending of the One Thousand and One Nights in the Earliest Turkish Translation and its Relationship to the Arabic Versions
- Learning Over-Nights: Calcutta One as an Adaptation for Learners of Arabic
- SECTION 3. MIDDLE EASTERN NARRATIVE CULTURES
- In and Out of the Nights: The Thousand and One Nights as an Introduction to Middle Eastern Narrative Culture
- From Shahriyar's Palace to the Streets of Morocco: A Comparative Study of the Moroccan Oral Tale '?atim and the Queen Cobra' with the 'Story of ?asib Karim al- Din and the Queen Cobra' in the One Thousand and One Nights
- SECTION 4. PERFORMING ARTS
- The Slippers That Keep Coming Back: Gender and Race in Two Swedish Theatre Adaptations, Abu Casem's Slippers (1908) and The Weaver of Baghdad (1923)
- Miguel Gomes's Arabian Nights trilogy: representing the Portuguese crisis through the imaginary world of The Thousand and One Nights
- Russian Orientalist Ballet and Non-Russian National Opera: From Diaghilev to Miroshnichenko
