Download or read book Sheherazade Through the Looking Glass written by Eva Sallis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-18 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Thousand and One Nights was reborn into an alien environment in 1704, its signs being received in a radically different way from their original meanings. Works of literature change as people and cultures who read them change. This study explores the Nights with reference to this view of literature.

Download or read book Rethinking Madness Interdisciplinary and Multicultural Reflections written by Gonzalo Araoz and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-05-15 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book New Perspectives on Arabian Nights written by Wen-chin Ouyang and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-02-04 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adopting a multi-disciplinary approach, this comparative study of a selection of The Arabian Nights stories in a cross-cultural context, brings together a number of disciplines and subject areas to examine the workings of narrative. It predominantly focuses on the ways in which the Arabian Nights have transformed as its stories have travelled across historical eras, cultures, genres and media. Departing from the familiar approaches of influence and textual studies, this book locates its central inquiry in the theoretical questions surrounding the workings of ideology, genre and genre ideology in shaping and transforming stories. The ten essays included in this volume respond to a general question, ‘what can the transformation of Nights stories in their travels tell us about narrative and storytelling, and their function in a particular culture?’ Following a Nights story in its travels from past to present, from Middle East to Europe and from literature to film, the book engages in close comparative analyses of ideological variations found in a variety of texts. These analyses allow new modes of reading texts and make it possible to breach new horizons for thinking about narrative. This Book was previously published as a special issue of Middle Eastern Literatures entitled Ideological Variations and Narrative Horizons: New Perspectives on Arabian Nights.

Download or read book Myth of the Silent Woman written by Suellen Diaconoff and published by . This book was released on 2009-11-07 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning in the 1980s and gathering force in the last decade of the twentieth century, Moroccan women writers have become the latest group of Middle Eastern women to break their silence by writing both fiction and non-fiction. The Myth of the Silent Woman examines representative French-language texts from Moroccan women writers. Suellen Diaconoff situates these works in a discourse of social justice and reform, arguing that they contribute to the emerging national debate on democracy and help to create new public spaces of discourse and participation. In novels and short stories, essays and memoirs, including one powerful text by a dissident and former political prisoner, these authors contest hegemonic systems of thought and practice, reappraise traditional spaces and limits, shatter taboos and transgress borders. In so doing, they profoundly undermine easy assumptions about Arab women, feminism, and democracy, while boldly challenging the stereotype of the silent woman.

Download or read book Making Cairo Medieval written by Nezar AlSayyad and published by Transnational Perspectives on Space and Place. This book was released on 2005 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the nineteenth century, Cairo witnessed one of its most dramatic periods of transformation. Well on its way to becoming a modern and cosmopolitan city, by the end of the century, a 'medieval' Cairo had somehow come into being. While many Europeans in the nineteenth century viewed Cairo as a fundamentally dual city--physically and psychically split between East/West and modern/medieval--the contributors to the provocative collection demonstrate that, in fact, this process of inscription was the result of restoration practices, museology, and tourism initiated by colonial occupiers. The first edited volume to address nineteenth-century Cairo both in terms of its history and the perception of its achievements, this book will be an essential text for courses in architectural and art history dealing with the Islamic world.

Download or read book The Arabian Nights Encyclopedia written by Ulrich Marzolph and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The Longman Anthology of World Literature written by David Damrosch and published by Longman Publishing Group. This book was released on 2004 with total page 1200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume samples a broad range of literature from the ancient world. It offers extensive selections from The Bible, The Book of Songs, The Mahabharata, The Ramayana, and Virgil's Aenid, as well as seven longer works in their entirety, including The Epic of Gilgamesh and The Odyssey .

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Download or read book Secret Lives written by Barry Oakley and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anthology of short stories by modern Australian writers. The stories vary widely in theme and style, from science fiction and fantasy to realism. Contributors include Peter Carey, Helen Garner, David Malouf, Lily Brett, Tim Winton, Elizabeth Jolley, Barry Dickins and Sari Wawn. Includes notes on contributors. Edited with a brief introduction to each story by Oakley, a novelist and former literary editor of 'The Australian' newspaper. His previous works include A Salute to the Great McCarthy and Dont Leave Me'.

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Download or read book Ex oriente fabula exploring the narrative culture of the Islamic Near and Middle East written by Ulrich Marzolph and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Arabic Literary Culture 500 925 written by Michael Cooperson and published by Dictionary of Literary Biograp. This book was released on 2005 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents information on literary writers from the Arab world from the period of 500 to 925. Includes evaluations of the influence of the works.

Download or read book A Sister to Scheherazade written by Assia Djebar and published by Quartet Books (UK). This book was released on 1987 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of how Isma and Hajila, wives of the same man, escape from the traditional restraints imposed upon the women of their country.