ISBN:
9781479840311
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (484 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version Scheherazade's Children : Global Encounters with the Arabian Nights
DDC:
398.22
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I: TRANSLATING; 1 The Sea-Born Tale: Eighteenth-Century English Translations of The Thousand and One Nights and the Lure of Elemental Difference; 2 Re-Orienting William Beckford: Transmission, Translation, and Continuation of The Thousand and One Nights; 3 The Collector of Worlds: Richard Burton, Cosmopolitan Translator of the Nights; PART II: ENGAGING; 4 The Porter and Portability: Figure and Narrative in the Nights; 5 The Rings of Budur and Qamar al-Zaman; 6 White Magic: Voltaire and Galland's Mille et une nuits
Description / Table of Contents:
7 The Arabian Nights and the Origins of the Western Novel8 "A Covenant for Reconciliation": Lane's Thousand and One Nights and Eliot's Daniel Deronda; 9 Translating Destiny: Hugo von Hofmannsthal's "Tale of the 672nd Night"; 10 Borges and the Missing Pages of the Nights; 11 The Politics of Conversation: Denis Diderot, Elio Vittorini, Manuel Puig, Masaki Kobayashi, Vasily Grossman; 12 Sindbad the Sailor: Textual, Visual, and Performative Interpretations; PART III: STAGING; 13 The Arabian Nights in British Pantomime; 14 The Arabian Nights in Traditional Japanese Performing Arts
Description / Table of Contents:
15 "Nectar If You Taste and Go, Poison If You Stay": Struggling with the Orient in Eighteenth-Century British Musical Theater16 Scheherazade, Bluebeard, and Theatrical Curiosity; 17 The Takarazuka Revue and the Fantasy of "Arabia" in Japan; 18 Thieves of the Orient: The Arabian Nights in Early Indian Cinema; Afterword: My Arabian Superheroine; List of Stories; Selected Bibliography; About the Contributors; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
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Description based upon print version of record
