Nocturnal Poetics
The Arabian Nights in Comparative Context
The Book of a Thousand and One Nights, better known as The Arabian Nights, is a classic of world literature and the most universally known work of Arabic narrative. Although much has been written about it, Professor Ghazoul's analysis is the first to apply modern critical methodology to the study of this intricate and much-admired literary masterpiece.The author draws on a wealth of critical tools -- medieval Arabic aesthetics and poetics, mythology and folklore, allegory and comedy, postmodern literary criticism, and formal and structural analysis -- to explain the specific genius of the The Arabian Nights. The author describes and examines…
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- ISBN: 978-1-61797-538-7
- EAN: 9781617975387
- Produktnummer: 22570916
- Verlag: American University of Cairo Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1996
- Seitenangabe: 256 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'287 KB
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Ferial Ghazoul is an Iraqi scholar, critic, and translator. She is professor of English and comparative literature at the American University in Cairo and has written extensively on gender issues in modern and medieval literature.
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