The Arabian Nights reader /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Detroit :
Wayne State University Press,
[2006]
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| Series: | Series in fairy-tale studies.
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| 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.