The Arabian Nights: A CompanionThe Arabian Nights: A Companion guides the reader into this celebrated labyrinth of storytelling. It traces the development of the stories from prehistoric India and Pharaonic Egypt to modern times. It explores the history of the translation, and explains the ways in which its contents have been added to, plagiarized and imitated. Above all, the book uses the stories as a guide to the social history and the counterculture of the medieval Near East and the world of the storyteller, the snake charmer, the burglar, the sorcerer, the drug addict, the treasure hunter and the adulterer. |
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User Review - Not Available - Book VerdictWhile not regarded as high literature by Arab intellectuals, past or present, The Arabian Nights has for centuries not only entertained but also conveyed universal messages through the adventures of ... Read full review
Bibliographic information
| Title | The Arabian Nights: A Companion Penguin literary criticism Tauris Parke Paperbacks Series |
| Author | Robert Irwin |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint, revised |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury USA, 2004 |
| ISBN | 1860649831, 9781860649837 |
| Length | 342 pages |
| Subjects | › Literary Criticism / Middle Eastern Social Science / Folklore & Mythology |
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