The Arabian nights encyclopedia
By: by Ulrich Marzolph and Richard van Leeuwen ; with the collaboration of Hassan Wassouf ; with fourteen introductory essays by internationally renowned specialists.
Contributors: Marzolph, Ulrich.; Leeuwen, Richard van.; Wassouf, Hassan.
Publisher: ABC-CLIO
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Santa Barbara, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 921
Subjects: Arabian nights
Description: "The Arabian Nights Encyclopedia is the first English-language reference work to present detailed, authoritative, and up-to-date research on all the published tales, covering key protagonists, themes, important translations, textual history, adaptations, works inspired by individual stories, and the literary context for each tale. Compiled by renowned scholars, the encyclopedia offers thoroughly researched and reliable information on a wide array of little-known topics." "The encyclopedia's numerous scholarly essays explore motivation and action in the tales, manuscript traditions, popular culture, film adaptations, modern Arabic literature, and other broad areas of inquiry. Its more than 800 A-Z entries cover a wide range of subjects from Ali the Cairene and James Joyce to mad lovers and wine. Incorporating original unpublished research, the book is a valuable resource for scholars, educators, students, and all libraries."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Literary style and narrative technique in the Arabian nights / by David Beaumont; title: Situation, motivation, and action in the Arabian nights / by Aboubakr Chraïbi; title: The oral connections of the Arabian nights / by Hasan El-Shamy; title: Poetry and the Arabian nights / by Geert Jan Van Gelder; title: The manuscript tradition of the Arabian nights / by Heinz Grotzfeld; title: The Arabian nights in film adaptations / by Robert Irwin; title: The Arabian nights as an orientalist text / by Rana Kabbani; title: Illustrations to the Arabian nights / by Kazue Kobayashi; title: The Arabian nights and the popular epics / by Remke Kruk; title: Homosexuality, heterosexuality, and Shahrazâd / by Dedwa Malti-Douglas; title: The Arabian nights and the Jews / by Joseph Sadan; title: Images of masculinity in the Arabian nights / by Reinhard Schulze; title: Social life and popular culture in the Arabian nights / by Boaz Shoshan; title: Modern Arabic literature and the Arabian nights / by Wiebke Walther; title: The phenomenon of the Arabian night; title: The world of the Arabian Nights; title: Appendixes.