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Marvellous Thieves : Secret Authors of the Arabian Nights /
Ranging from the coffeehouses of Aleppo to the salons of Paris, from Calcutta to London, Paulo Lemos Horta introduces the poets and scholars, pilgrims and charlatans who made largely unacknowledged contributions to Arabian Nights. Each version betrays the distinctive cultural milieu in which it was...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, MA :
Harvard University Press,
[2017]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- A Note on Terminology
- Introduction
- 1. The Storyteller and the Sultan of France
- 2. Marvellous Thieves
- 3. The Empire of English
- 4. The Magician's Interpreter
- 5. The Wiles of Women
- 6. Stealing with Style
- 7. The False Caliph
- Notes
- Acknowledgements
- Illustration Credits
- Index