Wonder and the Marvellous from Homer to the Hellenistic World, Jessica Lightfoot

Автор: Lightfoot Jessica
Название: Wonder and the Marvellous from Homer to the Hellenistic World
ISBN: 1009009141 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781009009140
Издательство: Cambridge University Press
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Описание: Shows that wonder and wonders constituted a central theme in Greek culture from Homer to the Hellenistic period. Argues for its importance in discussions of the purpose of philosophy and literature and in expressions of the relationships between the human and the divine and between self and other.

Автор: Sander Berg, Berg
Название: Marvellous and the miraculous in maria de zayas
ISBN: 1781888272 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781781888278
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Описание: Maria de Zayas y Sotomayor (Madrid, 1590-1647?) was one of the few secular women writers of her age and enjoyed great popularity. Her novellas abound with miracles, disembodied voices, premonitory dreams, deals with the Devil, sorcery and witchcraft.

Автор: Horta Paulo Lemos
Название: Marvellous Thieves: Secret Authors of the Arabian Nights
ISBN: 0674986598 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780674986596
Издательство: Wiley
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Although many of its stories originated centuries ago in the Middle East, the Arabian Nights is regarded as a classic of world literature by virtue of the seminal French and English translations produced in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Supporting the suspicion that the story collection is more Parisian than Persian, some of its most famous tales, including the stories of Aladdin and Ali Baba, appear nowhere in the original sources. Yet as befits a world where magic lamps may conceal a jinni and fabulous treasures lie just beyond secret doors, the truth of the Arabian Nights is richer than standard criticism suggests.

"Marvellous Thieves, which draws on hitherto neglected sources, is a brilliant, fluent and original work of literary scholarship."
--Robert Irwin, Literary Review

"This fine book...cogently probes an influential period in the knotted and at times sordid history of the Arabian Nights, serving as a fine example to those unraveling this promiscuous and forever malleable set of stories."
--Charles Shafaieh, Wall Street Journal

"Intelligent and engrossing...The great merit of Horta's book is that its interest always lies in the story of the story, in mapping out the complex network of the translators, editors and travellers behind the Arabian Nights, in ways that enrich our sense of this remarkable text."
--Shahidha Bari, Times Higher Education