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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ghazoul, Ferial Jabouri, 1939- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : American University in Cairo Press, ©2014.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Half Title Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; Part I; 1 Textual Variants and Critical Methodology; 2 Narrative Dialectics; 3 Discursive Significance; 4 Mimesis and Meta-Mimesis; 5 Beastly Rhetoric; 6 The Spiral Metaphor; 7 The Runaway Metonym; 8 Perpetual Narrative; Part II; 9 Poetic Logic in The Panchatantra and The Arabian Nights; 10 The Arabian Nights in Shakespearean Comedy: "The Sleeper Awakened" and The Taming of the Shrew; 11 Dialectics of the Self and the Other: Arabian Tales in American Literatures.
  • 12 Naguib Mahfouz's Arabian Nights and Days: A Political Allegory13 Nomadic Text; Notes; Bibliography.