The Arabian Nights commands a place in world literature unrivaled
by any other fictional work of ""Oriental"" provenance. Bringing
together Indian, Iranian, and Arabic tradition, this collection of
tales became popular in the Western world during the eighteenth
century and has since exerted a profound influence on theater,
opera, music, painting, architecture, and literature. ""The Arabian
Nights Reader"" offers an authoritative guide to the research
inspired by this rich and intricate work. Through a selection of
sixteen influential and currently relevant essays, culled from
decades of scholarship, this volume encompasses the most salient
research topics to date, from the ""Nights'"" early history to
interpretations of such famous characters as Sheherazade. While
serious research on the ""Nights"" began early in the nineteenth
century, some of the most puzzling aspects of the collection's
complex history and character were solved only quite recently. This
volume's topics reflect the makings of a transnational narrative:
evidence of a ninth-century version of the ""Nights"", the work's
circulation among booksellers in twelfth-century Cairo, the
establishment of a ""canonical"" text, the sources used by the
French translator who introduced the ""Nights"" to the West and the
dating of this French translation, the influence of Greek
literature on the ""Nights"", the genre of romance, the
relationship between narration and survival within the plots,
reception of the ""Nights"" from the nineteenth century onward,
interpretations of single stories from the collection, the
universal nature of the sexual politics surrounding Sheherazade,
and the repercussion of the ""Nights"" in modern Arabic literature.
As this collection demonstrates, the ""Arabian Nights"" helped
shape Western perceptions of the ""Orient"" as the quintessential
""Other"" while serving to inspire Western creativity. The research
presented here not only deepens our insight into this great work,
but also heightens our awareness of the powerful communal forces of
transnational narrative.
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