The Arabian Nights reader /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Marzolph, Ulrich
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Detroit : Wayne State University Press, [2006]
Series:Series in fairy-tale studies.
Subjects:
Online Access:Table of contents only
Table of Contents:
  • The growth of scholarly interest in the Arabian nights / Muhsin Jassim Ali
  • A ninth-century fragment of the "Thousand nights": new light on the early history of the Arabian nights / Nabia Abbott
  • The oldest documentary evidence for the title Alf laila wa-laila / Solomon D. Goitein
  • Neglected conclusions of the Arabian nights: gleanings in forgotten and overlooked recensions / Heinz Grotzfeld
  • The age of the Galland manuscript of the Nights: numismatic evidence for dating a manuscript? / Heinz Grotzfeld
  • The sources of Galland's Nuits / Muhsin Mahdi
  • Greek form elements in the Arabian Nights / Gustave E. von Grunebaum
  • Romance as genre in The thousand and one nights / Peter Heath
  • Narrative-men / Tzvetan Todorov
  • An analysis of the "Tale of the three apples" from The thousand and one nights / Roger Allen
  • Historical and mythical Baghdad in the tale of ʻAli b. Bakkār and Shams al-Nahār, or the resurgence of the imaginary / Jamel Eddine Bencheikh
  • The monstrous births of "Aladdin" / Michael Cooperson
  • An allegory from the Arabian nights: the city of brass / Andras Hamori
  • From history to fiction: the tale told by the king's steward / Muhsin Mahdi
  • Sinbad the Sailor: a commentary on the ethics of violence / Peter D. Molan
  • Shahrazād feminist / Fedwa Malti-douglas.