New Perspectives on Arabian Nights

Sinopsis del Libro

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.

Información del Libro

Número de páginas 160

Autor:

Wen-chin Ouyang
Geert Jan Van Gelder

Categoría:

Crítica Literaria

Formatos Disponibles:

PDF, EPUB, MOBI

¿Cómo obtener el libro?

A continuación, te presentamos diversas opciones para adquirir el libro:

Puntuación

Popular

4.8

18 Reseñas Totales

Más libros de la categoría Crítica Literaria

Sexto viaje al Reino de la Fantasía

Un gran peligro se cierne sobre el Reino de la Fantasía... Vermelia, la Reina de las Reinas de las Brujas y custodia del Gran Rubí de Fuego, quiere apoderarse de otra poderosísima piedra, el Zafiro Celeste... Si lo consigue, el Reino entero caerá en sus manos. ¡Así empieza otra fantástica aventura para Geronimo! Incluye nuevos olores mágicos.

Cartografías literarias del exilio

This study deals with the experience of exile in the works of three Spanish American writers: The Cuban authors Reinaldo Arenas and Manuel Diaz Martinez, as well as the Uruguayan author Fernando Ainsa. Along with the reshaping of territories, and socio-economic and cultural dimensions which took place on a worldwide scale, the last few decades have also witnessed a reshaping of the spectrum and voices of Latin-American writers that create, revisit and suffer the complex and multifaceted phenomenon of exile. The displaced subject, or rather, the voices of the displaced, the marginalized and...

Mario Bellatin y las formas de la escritura

Este libro reune la colaboracion de tres importantes escritores, asi como la de dieciseis destacados investigadores, en torno a la obra del escritor mexicano Mario Bellatin. Con un abordaje critico variado y multidisciplinario, cada seccion del libro resalta los distintos ejes tematicos que surgen de la misma obra de este escritor; a saber: la transliteratura, la filosofia, el cuerpo, el humor, el genero y la estetica. Ademas, el libro cuenta con un texto inedito de Mario Bellatin. En suma, se trata de un aporte critico importante sobre la obra de uno de los escritores contemporaneos mas sui...