num_pages: 286
description: Almost three centuries have passed since the oldest manuscript of "The Thousand and One Nights" arrived in Europe. Since then, the "Nights" have occupied the minds of scholars world-wide, in particular the questions of origin, composition, language and literary form. In this book, Muhsin Mahdi, whose critical edition of the text brought so much praise, explores the complex literary history of the "Nights," bringing to fruition the search for the archetype that constituted the core of the surviving editions, and treating the fascinating story of the growth of the collection of stories that we now know as "The Thousand and One Nights".ContentsPrefaceINTRODUCTION1. Antoine Galland and the Nights2. Galland´s successors3. Four editions: 1814-1843Three interpretationsAppendix 1: Religion and politics in the NightsAppendix 2: Exemplary Tales in the NightsAppendix 3: From history to fictionNotes on reference styleNotesREFERENCES
language: English
title: The Thousand and One Nights
titlecomplete: The Thousand and One Nights
ratings_count: 23
publisher: Brill Academic Pub