The Arabian nights and orientalism : perspectives from East & West / Yuriko Yamanaka and Tetsuo Nishio.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Yamanaka, Yuriko.

Nishio, Tetsuo.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arabian nights.

Orientalism.

Physical Description:

xvii, 269 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, 2006.

Summary:

To commemorate the tercentenary of the first Western edition of "The Arabian Nights, "Yamanaka and Nishio marry Western and Japanese perspectives to analyze the rich cross-cultural fertilization that ensued. "Arabian Nights and Orientalism" examines narrative motifs, and relates them to other cultures, traditions, and forms of representation. The authors place the tales in a whole range of new contexts, from 19th century British feminism to ancient Greek romance. This lavishly illustrated book explores the interplay between image and text in various editions, and sheds new light on the tales' origin in the Persian professional storytelling tradition. Robert Irwin's foreword offers an overview of critical responses to "The Arabian Nights," which highlights the originality of this volume.

Contents:

Introduction: The Imagined Other and the Reflected Self / Yuriko Yamanaka, Tetsuo Nishio xv

I Motifs and Formulas 1

1 The Arabian Nights in Comparative Folk Narrative Research / Ulrich Marzolph 3

2 Mythological Constituents of Alf layla wa layla / Hasan El-Shamy 25

3 Formulas and Formulaic Pictures: Elements of Oral Literature in the Thousand and One Nights / Kathrin Muller 47

4 Repetitiveness in the Arabian Nights: Openness as Self-foundation / Etsuko Aoyagi 68

II Sources and Influences

5 Alexander in the Thousand and One Nights and the Ghazali Connection / Yuriko Yamanaka 93

6 The Arabian Nights in Modern Japan: A Brief Historical Sketch / Hideaki Sugita 116

7 The Arabian Nights and Orientalism from a Japanese Perspective / Tetsuo Nishio 154

II Text and Image

8 The Evolution of the Arabian Nights Illustrations: An Art Historical Review / Kazue Kobayashi 171

9 Body, Voice and Gaze: Text and Illustration in the Frame Story of the Thousand and One Nights / Akiko Motoyoshi Sumi, Claus Cluver 194

10 The Image of Sheherazade in French and English Editions of the Thousand and One Nights (Eighteenth-nineteenth centuries) / Margaret Sironval 219.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-264) and index.

ISBN:

1850437688

OCLC:

57638346

Publisher Number:

978850437688