The Thousand and One Nights
Subtitle: Space, Travel and Transformation (Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Routledge
Published: January 18, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 161
ISBN-13: 9780415400398
Subjects: Literary studies: general; Myth & legend told as fiction; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Middle East; Medieval; Middle Eastern; Literary Criticism & Collections / General; Space and time in literature; Travel in literature
Description: "In many stories of the well-known masterpiece of Arabic literature, the Thousand and one nights, themes and motifs of space and travel are of essential importance for the structure of the narrative. This volume discusses these themes and shows that they are used not only as a setting in which the story to the final denouement."--Jacket.