Author: Richard F. BurtonPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3387027680
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 734
Book Description
The Supplemental Nights to the Thousand Nights and a Night; with Notes Anthropological and Explanatory
Author: Richard F. BurtonPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3387027680
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 734
Book Description
Supplemental Nights to the Book of the Thousand and One Nights
Author: Sir Richard Francis BurtonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arabian nights
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
The Arabian Nights, Volume II
Author: Jack ZipesPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101160748
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 373
Book Description
Volume two in a collection of tales representing distinctive genres- from fairy tales to erotica-revealing the customs and societies in the medieval Middle East, as told by the mythic Sheherazade.
Scheherazade's Children
Author: Philip F. KennedyPublisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 1479840319
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
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.
One Thousand and One Nights (Complete Annotated Edition)
Author: Richard Francis BurtonPublisher: e-artnow
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 4115
Book Description
"In tide of yore and in time long gone before, there was a King of the Kings of the Banu Sásán in the Islands of India and China, a Lord of armies and guards and servants and dependents . . . So he succeeded to the empire; when he ruled the land and forded it over his lieges with justice so exemplary that he was beloved by all the peoples of his capital and of his kingdom."_x000D_ The Book of the Thousand Nights and A Night is a collection of Middle Eastern, West Asian and South Asian stories and folk tales compiled in Arabic during the Islamic Golden Age. It is often known in English as the Arabian Nights.The stories proceed from an original tale of ruler Shahryār and his wife Scheherazade where some stories are framed within other stories, while others begin and end of their own accord. This edition contains more than 1001 tales of romance, erotica, supernatural and adventure along with copious notes transport you into the land of magic and nostalgia.
Books and Manuscripts
Author: Sawyer, Charles J., Ltd., Firm, Booksellers, LondonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Volume 16, Tome I: Kierkegaard's Literary Figures and Motifs
Author: Katalin NunPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 135187487X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
While Kierkegaard is perhaps known best as a religious thinker and philosopher, there is an unmistakable literary element in his writings. He often explains complex concepts and ideas by using literary figures and motifs that he could assume his readers would have some familiarity with. This dimension of his thought has served to make his writings far more popular than those of other philosophers and theologians, but at the same time it has made their interpretation more complex. Kierkegaard readers are generally aware of his interest in figures such as Faust or the Wandering Jew, but they rarely have a full appreciation of the vast extent of his use of characters from different literary periods and traditions. The present volume is dedicated to the treatment of the variety of literary figures and motifs used by Kierkegaard. The volume is arranged alphabetically by name, with Tome I covering figures and motifs from Agamemnon to Guadalquivir.
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