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Nocturnal poetics : the Arabian Nights in comparative context /
The Book of a Thousand and One Nights, better known as The Arabian Nights, is a classic of world literature and the most universally known work of Arabic narrative. Although much has been written about it, Professor Ghazoul''s analysis is the first to apply modern critical methodology to t...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
American University in Cairo Press,
©2014.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | The Book of a Thousand and One Nights, better known as The Arabian Nights, is a classic of world literature and the most universally known work of Arabic narrative. Although much has been written about it, Professor Ghazoul''s analysis is the first to apply modern critical methodology to the study of this intricate and much-admired literary masterpiece. The author draws on a wealth of critical tools -- medieval Arabic aesthetics and poetics, mythology and folklore, allegory and comedy, postmodern literary criticism, and formal and structural analysis -- to explain the specific genius of the Th. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (312 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781617975387 1617975389 |