ISBN:
9781479837922
,
147983792X
,
1479840319
,
9781479840311
,
1479857092
,
9781479830756
Language:
English
Pages:
pages cm
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
398.22
Keywords:
Scheherazade / Queen, consort of Shahryar, King of Persia (Legendary character)
;
Scheherazade
;
Arabian nights
;
Alf laila wa-laila
;
Geschichte
;
Arabian nights
;
Arabian nights
;
English literature
;
Literature
;
ART / Performance
;
ART / Reference
;
LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Middle Eastern
;
Literatur
;
Rezeption
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Alf laila wa-laila
;
Rezeption
;
Geschichte
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Part I. Translating -- part II. Engaging -- part III. Staging
,
Scheherazade's Children gathers together leading scholars to explore the reverberations of the tales of the Arabian Nights across a startlingly wide and transnational range of cultural endeavors. The contributors, drawn from a wide array of disciplines, extend their inquiries into the book's metamorphoses on stage and screen as well as in literature-from India to Japan, from Sanskrit mythology to British pantomime, from Baroque opera to puppet shows. Their highly original research illuminates little-known manifestations of the Nights, and provides unexpected contexts for understanding the boo
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