The Arabian nights and orientalism : perspectives from East & West /

Other Authors: Yamanaka, Yuriko.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, 2006.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface / Robert Irwin
  • The imagined other and the reflected self / Yuriko Yamanaka, Tetsuo Nishio
  • The Arabian nights in comparative folk narrative research / Ulrich Marzolph
  • Mythological constituents of Alf layla wa layla / Hasan el-Shamy
  • Formulas and formulaic pictures : elements of oral literature in the Thousand and one nights / Kathrin Müller
  • Repetitiveness in the Arabian nights : openness as self-foundation / Etsuko Aoyagi
  • Alexander in the Thousand and one nights and the Ghazālī connection / Yuriko Yamanaka
  • The Arabian nights in modern Japan : a brief historical sketch / Hideaki Sugita
  • The Arabian nights and orientalism from a Japanese perspective / Tetsuo Nishio
  • The evolution of the Arabian nights illustrations : an art historical review / Kazue Kobayashi
  • Body, voice, and gaze : text and illustration in the frame story of the Thousand and one nights / Akiko Motoyoshi Sumi and Claus Clüver
  • The image of Sheherazade in French and English editions of the Thousand and one nights (eighteenth-nineteenth centuries) / Margaret Sironval.