Stranger magic
Subtitle: charmed states and The Arabian nights
By: Marina Warner
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press; Belknap Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 540
ISBN-13: 9780674055308
Subjects: Magic in literature; Orientalism; Influence; Myth in literature; Arabian nights
Description: Our foremost theorist of myth, fairytale, and folktale explores the magical realm of the imagination where carpets fly and genies grant prophetic wishes. Stranger Magic examines the profound impact of the Arabian Nights on the West, the progressive exoticization of magic, and the growing acceptance of myth and magic in contemporary experience.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.