The Arabian Nights in Historical Context : Between East and West.
Makdisi, Saree.
The Arabian Nights in Historical Context : Between East and West. - 1st ed. - Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2009. ©2009. - 1 online resource (352 pages)
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Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- 1. Translation in the Contact Zone: Antoine Galland's Mille et une nuits: contes arabes -- 2. Cultivating the Garden: Antoine Galland's Arabian Nights in the Traditions of English Literature -- 3. Playing the Second String: The Role of Dinarzade in Eighteenth-Century English Fiction -- 4. Galland, Georgian Theatre, and the Creation of Popular Orientalism -- 5. Christians in The Arabian Nights -- 6. White Women and Moorish Fancy in Eighteenth-Century Literature -- 7. William Beckford's Vathek and the Uses of Oriental Re-enactment -- 8. 'The peculiar character of the Arabian Tale': William Beckford and The Arabian Nights -- 9. Coleridge and the Oriental Tale -- 10. The Adventure Chronotope and the Oriental Xenotrope: Galland, Sheridan, and Joyce Domesticate: The Arabian Nights -- 11. Under the Spell of Magic: The Oriental Tale in Rimsky-Korsakov's Sheherazade -- 12. The Arabian Nights and the Contemporary Arabic Novel -- Select Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
In the 300 hundred years following the translation of The Arabian Nights into French and English, a chain of editions, compilations, translations, and variations has circled the globe. Here scholars from across the world reassess the influence of the Nights in Enlightenment and Romantic literature and beyond.
9780191564963
Literature, Modern -- 19th century -- History and criticism. Literature, Modern -- 18th century -- History and criticism. Arabian nights -- Influence.
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The Arabian Nights in Historical Context : Between East and West. - 1st ed. - Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2009. ©2009. - 1 online resource (352 pages)
E-Book-ProQuest / Fernzugriff nach Registrierung möglich
Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- 1. Translation in the Contact Zone: Antoine Galland's Mille et une nuits: contes arabes -- 2. Cultivating the Garden: Antoine Galland's Arabian Nights in the Traditions of English Literature -- 3. Playing the Second String: The Role of Dinarzade in Eighteenth-Century English Fiction -- 4. Galland, Georgian Theatre, and the Creation of Popular Orientalism -- 5. Christians in The Arabian Nights -- 6. White Women and Moorish Fancy in Eighteenth-Century Literature -- 7. William Beckford's Vathek and the Uses of Oriental Re-enactment -- 8. 'The peculiar character of the Arabian Tale': William Beckford and The Arabian Nights -- 9. Coleridge and the Oriental Tale -- 10. The Adventure Chronotope and the Oriental Xenotrope: Galland, Sheridan, and Joyce Domesticate: The Arabian Nights -- 11. Under the Spell of Magic: The Oriental Tale in Rimsky-Korsakov's Sheherazade -- 12. The Arabian Nights and the Contemporary Arabic Novel -- Select Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
In the 300 hundred years following the translation of The Arabian Nights into French and English, a chain of editions, compilations, translations, and variations has circled the globe. Here scholars from across the world reassess the influence of the Nights in Enlightenment and Romantic literature and beyond.
9780191564963
Literature, Modern -- 19th century -- History and criticism. Literature, Modern -- 18th century -- History and criticism. Arabian nights -- Influence.
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