Arabian nights book of the thousand nights and one night v.1, 

Автор: Kennedy Philip, Warner Marina
Название: Scheherazade`s Children: Global Encounters with the Arabian Nights
ISBN: 1479857092 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781479857098
Издательство: Wiley EDC
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Scheherazade’s Children gathers together leading scholars to explore the reverberations of the tales of the Arabian Nights across a startlingly wide and transnational range of cultural endeavors. The contributors, drawn from a wide array of disciplines, extend their inquiries into the book’s metamorphoses on stage and screen as well as in literature—from India to Japan, from Sanskrit mythology to British pantomime, from Baroque opera to puppet shows. Their highly original research illuminates little-known manifestations of the Nights, and provides unexpected contexts for understanding the book’s complex history. Polemical issues are thereby given unprecedented and enlightening interpretations.
Organized under the rubrics of Translating, Engaging, and Staging, these essays view the Nights corpus as a uniquely accretive cultural bundle that absorbs the works upon which it has exerted influence. In this view, the Arabian Nights is a dynamic, living and breathing cross-cultural phenomenon that has left its mark on fields as disparate as the European novel and early Indian cinema. While scholarly, the writers’ approach is also lively and entertaining, and the book is richly illustrated with unusual materials to deliver a sparkling and highly original exploration of the Arabian Nights’ radiating influence on world literature, performance, and culture.

Автор: Kennedy Philip F., Warner Marina
Название: Scheherazade`s Children: Global Encounters with the Arabian Nights
ISBN: 1479840319 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781479840311
Издательство: Wiley EDC
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Scheherazade’s Children gathers together leading scholars to explore the reverberations of the tales of the Arabian Nights across a startlingly wide and transnational range of cultural endeavors. The contributors, drawn from a wide array of disciplines, extend their inquiries into the book’s metamorphoses on stage and screen as well as in literature—from India to Japan, from Sanskrit mythology to British pantomime, from Baroque opera to puppet shows. Their highly original research illuminates little-known manifestations of the Nights, and provides unexpected contexts for understanding the book’s complex history. Polemical issues are thereby given unprecedented and enlightening interpretations.
Organized under the rubrics of Translating, Engaging, and Staging, these essays view the Nights corpus as a uniquely accretive cultural bundle that absorbs the works upon which it has exerted influence. In this view, the Arabian Nights is a dynamic, living and breathing cross-cultural phenomenon that has left its mark on fields as disparate as the European novel and early Indian cinema. While scholarly, the writers’ approach is also lively and entertaining, and the book is richly illustrated with unusual materials to deliver a sparkling and highly original exploration of the Arabian Nights’ radiating influence on world literature, performance, and culture.

Название: A Hundred and One Nights
ISBN: 0814745199 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780814745199
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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A luminous translation of Arabic tales of enchantment and wonder
Known to us only through North African manuscripts, and translated into English for the first time, A Hundred and One Nights is a marvelous example of the rich tradition of popular Arabic storytelling. Like its more famous sibling, the Thousand and One Nights, this collection opens with the frame story of Shahrazad, the gifted vizier’s daughter who recounts imaginative tales night after night in an effort to distract the murderous king from taking her life. A Hundred and One Nights features an almost entirely different set of stories, however, each one more thrilling, amusing, and disturbing than the last. In them, we encounter tales of epic warriors, buried treasures, disappearing brides, cannibal demon women, fatal shipwrecks, and clever ruses, where human strength and ingenuity play out against a backdrop of inexorable, inscrutable fate.
Although these tales draw on motifs and story elements that circulated across cultures, A Hundred and One Nights is distinctly rooted in Arabic literary culture and the Islamic tradition. It is also likely much older than Thousand and One Nights, drawing on Indian and Chinese antecedents. This careful edition and vibrant translation of A Hundred and One Nights promises to transport readers, new and veteran alike, into its fantastical realms of magic and wonder.
A bilingual Arabic-English edition.

Название: A Hundred and One Nights
ISBN: 1479873233 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781479873234
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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A luminous translation of Arabic tales of enchantment and wonder
Known to us only through North African manuscripts, and translated into English for the first time, A Hundred and One Nights is a marvelous example of the rich tradition of popular Arabic storytelling. Like its more famous sibling, the Thousand and One Nights, this collection opens with the frame story of Shahrazad, the gifted vizier’s daughter who recounts imaginative tales night after night in an effort to distract the murderous king from taking her life. A Hundred and One Nights features an almost entirely different set of stories, however, each one more thrilling, amusing, and disturbing than the last. In them, we encounter tales of epic warriors, buried treasures, disappearing brides, cannibal demon women, fatal shipwrecks, and clever ruses, where human strength and ingenuity play out against a backdrop of inexorable, inscrutable fate.
Although these tales draw on motifs and story elements that circulated across cultures, A Hundred and One Nights is distinctly rooted in Arabic literary culture and the Islamic tradition. It is also likely much older than Thousand and One Nights, drawing on Indian and Chinese antecedents. This careful edition and vibrant translation of A Hundred and One Nights promises to transport readers, new and veteran alike, into its fantastical realms of magic and wonder.
A bilingual Arabic-English edition.

Автор: Winterson, J (ed)
Название: Midsummer nights
ISBN: 1849161836 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781849161831
Издательство: Hodder
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Описание: In 2009, the Glyndebourne Festival of Opera reached its 75th year. In commemoration of this event, Jeanette Winterson has brought together some of the best loved and most critically acclaimed authors writing today to pen stories inspired by opera. A foreword from Ralph Fiennes and an introduction by Jeanette Winterson are followed by a host of bestselling contributors, including Alexander McCall Smith, Ali Smith, Antonia Fraser, Joanna Trollope, Julie Myerson, Lynne Truss, Andrew Motion, Jeanette Winterson, Kate Atkinson, Lynne Truss, Ruth Rendell and more.

Автор: Barry Gifford
Название: Southern Nights
ISBN: 0862418917 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780862418915
Издательство: Canongate
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Описание: A collection of the author's stories set in the junk food Bible-belt of New Orleans and the Deep South, where desperation and madness threaten to engulf everyday folk in their often surreal struggle for survival. "Night People", "Arise and Walk" and "Baby Cat Face" all feature in this volume.