Endless inspiration : One thousand and one nights in comparative perspective / edited by Orhan Elmaz.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Elmaz, Orhan, editor.

Walter de Gruyter & Co.

Series:

Gorgias handbooks

Gorgias handbooks, 1935-6838

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arabian nights--Influence.

Arabian nights.

Arabian nights--Adaptations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 344 pages).

Place of Publication:

Piscataway, NJ : Gorgias Press, 2020.

Contents:

Shahrazad in twentieth-century fiction : approaches and considerations / Richard van Leeuwen

"We are not in Baghdad anymore" : textual travels and Hausa intertextual adaptation of selected tales of One thousand and one nights in Northern Nigeria / Abdalla Uba Adamu

Enchanted storytelling : Muḥammad Khuḍayyir between Borges and Shahrazad / Fabio Caiani and Catherine Cobha

Two perspectives, one Shahrazad : Turkish poetry and One thousand and one nights / Neslihan Demirkol and Mehmet Kalpaklı

Source of inspiration, matter of translation, Joseph von Hammer and the 1001 nights / Sibylle Wentker

'Oh leader of women in the world, oh Shahrazad!' : the ending of the One thousand and one nights in the earliest Turkish translation and its relationship to the Arabic versions / Johannes Thomann

Learning over-nights : Calcutta one as an adaptation for learners of Arabic / Orhan Elmaz

In and out of the nights : the Thousand and one nights as an introduction to Middle Eastern narrative culture / Ulrich Marzolph

From Shahriyār's palace to the streets of Morocco : a comparative study of the Moroccan oral tale 'Ḥātim and the queen cobra' with the 'Story of Ḥāsib Karīm al-Dīn and the queen cobra' in the One thousand and one nights / Driss Cherkaou

The slippers that keep coming back : gender and race in two Swedish theatre adaptations, Abu Casem's slippers (1908) and The weaver of Baghdad (1923) / Tetz Rooke

Miguel Gomes's Arabian nights trilogy : representing the Portuguese crisis through the imaginary world of The thousand and one nights / Ana Vera

Russian orientalist ballet and non-Russian national opera : from Diaghilev to Miroshnichenko / Firuza Melville.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Electronic reproduction. Berlin Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 20, 2020).

Other Format:

Print version: Endless inspiration

ISBN:

9781463241872

1463241879

Publisher Number:

99992946549

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.