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The Arabian Nights in English Literary Theory (1704-1910) - Scheherazade in England. An Expanded and Updated Version of the 1981 Edition (Paperback, New edition)
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The Arabian Nights in English Literary Theory (1704-1910) - Scheherazade in England. An Expanded and Updated Version of the 1981 Edition (Paperback, New edition)
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In its first edition, this book was a new opening in the study of
the Arabian Nights as an index of literary taste, a case study for
the engagements of poets and writers, along with the common reading
public, with an art that took Europe by surprise, and forced new
patterns of response and writing. Borges thought of its advent as a
dynamic that helped generate the romantic mode and sensibility. It
certainly disturbed old habits of thought and made significant
cultural inroads throughout European cultures. Almost no one in
18th-19th century literatures remained oblivious to that sweeping
phenomenal appearance. The book analyzes and studies modes and
patterns of reading, response, engagement, commentary,
translations, claims to authentication, abridgements, and
illustrations. It focuses on debates and controversies around the
Arabian Nights, and shows how these happened to be at the center of
a growing colonial culture. This book can never lose its
significance for students, scholars, and general readership, not
only in the field of comparative and cultural studies, English and
French departments, but also in postcolonial studies and the basics
of narrative and narratology.
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