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  1. Scheherazade's Children
    Global Encounters with the Arabian Nights
    Author: Kennedy, Philip F.
    Published: 2013
    Publisher:  NYU Press, New York

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    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden / Hochschulbibliothek Amberg
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    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden, Hochschulbibliothek, Standort Weiden
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 147983792X; 1479840319; 1479857092; 9781479837922; 9781479840311; 9781479857098
    Subjects: Arabian nights; English literature; Literature; ART / Performance; ART / Reference; Arabian nights; Scheherazade (Legendary character); Literatur; Rezeption
    Other subjects: Scheherazade Queen, consort of Shahryar, King of Persia (Legendary character)
    Scope: 1 online resource (484 pages)
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    Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I: TRANSLATING; 1 The Sea-Born Tale: Eighteenth-Century English Translations of The Thousand and One Nights and the Lure of Elemental Difference; 2 Re-Orienting William Beckford: Transmission, Translation, and Continuation of The Thousand and One Nights; 3 The Collector of Worlds: Richard Burton, Cosmopolitan Translator of the Nights; PART II: ENGAGING; 4 The Porter and Portability: Figure and Narrative in the Nights; 5 The Rings of Budur and Qamar al-Zaman; 6 White Magic: Voltaire and Galland's Mille et une nuits

    7 The Arabian Nights and the Origins of the Western Novel8 "A Covenant for Reconciliation": Lane's Thousand and One Nights and Eliot's Daniel Deronda; 9 Translating Destiny: Hugo von Hofmannsthal's "Tale of the 672nd Night"; 10 Borges and the Missing Pages of the Nights; 11 The Politics of Conversation: Denis Diderot, Elio Vittorini, Manuel Puig, Masaki Kobayashi, Vasily Grossman; 12 Sindbad the Sailor: Textual, Visual, and Performative Interpretations; PART III: STAGING; 13 The Arabian Nights in British Pantomime; 14 The Arabian Nights in Traditional Japanese Performing Arts

    15 "Nectar If You Taste and Go, Poison If You Stay": Struggling with the Orient in Eighteenth-Century British Musical Theater16 Scheherazade, Bluebeard, and Theatrical Curiosity; 17 The Takarazuka Revue and the Fantasy of "Arabia" in Japan; 18 Thieves of the Orient: The Arabian Nights in Early Indian Cinema; Afterword: My Arabian Superheroine; List of Stories; Selected Bibliography; About the Contributors; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z.

    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 boo
  2. Scheherazade's children
    global encounters with The Arabian Nights
    Contributor: Warner, Marina (Publisher); Kennedy, Philip F. (Publisher)
    Published: 2013 (2013)
    Publisher:  New York University Press, New York

    Location:
    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden / Hochschulbibliothek Amberg
    Inter-library loan:
    Unlimited inter-library loan, copies and loan

    Location:
    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden, Hochschulbibliothek, Standort Weiden
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    Unlimited inter-library loan, copies and loan
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Contributor: Warner, Marina (Publisher); Kennedy, Philip F. (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781479837922; 147983792X; 1479840319; 9781479840311; 1479857092; 9781479830756
    RVK Categories: EN 2910
    Subjects: Arabian nights; Arabian nights; English literature; Literature; ART / Performance; ART / Reference; LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Middle Eastern; Literatur; Rezeption
    Other subjects: Scheherazade / Queen, consort of Shahryar, King of Persia (Legendary character); Scheherazade Queen, consort of Shahryar, King of Persia (Legendary character)
    Scope: pages cm
    Notes:

    Includes bibliographical references and index

    Part I. Translating -- part II. Engaging -- part III. Staging

    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 boo