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New Perspectives on Arabian Nights - Ideological Variations and Narrative Horizons (Hardcover)
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New Perspectives on Arabian Nights - Ideological Variations and Narrative Horizons (Hardcover)
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Adopting a multi-disciplinary approach, this comparative study of a
selection of The Arabian Nights stories in a cross-cultural
context, brings together a number of disciplines and subject areas
to examine the workings of narrative. It predominantly focuses on
the ways in which the Arabian Nights have transformed as its
stories have travelled across historical eras, cultures, genres and
media. Departing from the familiar approaches of influence and
textual studies, this book locates its central inquiry in the
theoretical questions surrounding the workings of ideology, genre
and genre ideology in shaping and transforming stories. The ten
essays included in this volume respond to a general question, 'what
can the transformation of Nights stories in their travels tell us
about narrative and storytelling, and their function in a
particular culture?' Following a Nights story in its travels from
past to present, from Middle East to Europe and from literature to
film, the book engages in close comparative analyses of ideological
variations found in a variety of texts. These analyses allow new
modes of reading texts and make it possible to breach new horizons
for thinking about narrative. This Book was previously published as
a special issue of Middle Eastern Literatures entitled Ideological
Variations and Narrative Horizons: New Perspectives on Arabian
Nights.
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