| The Arabian Nights: A Companion Wyd Edition Contributor(s): Irwin, Robert (Author) |
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ISBN: 1860649831 ISBN-13: 9781860649837 Publisher: Tauris Parke Paperbacks OUR PRICE: $18.90 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2004 Annotation: "The 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Middle Eastern - Social Science | Folklore & Mythology |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Series: Tauris Parke Paperbacks |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.1" W x 7.8" (0.75 lbs) 342 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Middle East |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The 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. |