The Arabian Nights: A Companion

By Robert Irwin

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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.

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0713991054

ISBN13:9780713991055

Release Date:September 1994

Publisher:Viking

Length:352 Pages

Weight:1.55 lbs.

Dimensions:1.3" x 6.5" x 9.5"

Related Subjects

Criticism & Theory England Europe Folklore Folklore & Mythology History & Criticism Iran Ireland Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections

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