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Stranger magic : charmed states and The Arabian nights / Marina Warner.
LIBRA PJ7737 .W37 2012
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Warner, Marina, 1946-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Arabian nights--Influence.
- Arabian nights.
- Magic in literature.
- Myth in literature.
- Orientalism.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 540 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, MA : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2012.
- Summary:
- Our foremost theorist of myth, fairytale, and folktale explores the magical realm of the imagination where carpets fly and genies grant prophetic wishes. Stranger Magic examines the profound impact of the Arabian Nights on the West, the progressive exoticization of magic, and the growing acceptance of myth and magic in contemporary experience.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Pt. I. Solomon the wise king
- Pt. II. Dark arts; strange Gods
- Pt. III. Active goods
- Pt. IV. Oriental masquerades
- Pt. V. Flights of reason
- Conclusion : 'All the story of the night told over ...'.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [499]-516) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780674055308
- 0674055306
- OCLC:
- 758383788
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