The Thousand and One Nights and Twentieth-Century Fiction: Intertextual Readings by Van Leeuwen

The Thousand and One Nights and Twentieth-Century Fiction: Intertextual Readings (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9789004438668)

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The Thousand and One Nights and Twentieth-Century Fiction: Intertextual Readings by Van Leeuwen

The Thousand and One Nights and Twentieth-Century Fiction: Intertextual Readings

$65.00
The Thousand and One Nights and Twentieth-Century Fiction: Intertextual Readings by Van Leeuwen

The Thousand and One Nights and Twentieth-Century Fiction: Intertextual Readings

$65.00
Format: Paperback
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It is gradually being acknowledged that the Arabic story-collection Thousand and One Nights has had a major influence on European and world literature. This study analyses the influence of Thousand and One Nights, as an intertextual model, on 20th-century prose from all over the world. Works of approximately forty authors are examined: those who were crucial to the development of the main currents in 20th-century fiction, such as modernism, magical realism and post-modernism. The book contains six thematic sections divided into chapters discussing two or three authors/works, each from a narratological perspective and supplemented by references to the cultural and literary context. It is shown how Thousand and One Nights became deeply rooted in modern world literature especially in phases of renewal and experiment.

Author: Richard Van Leeuwen
ISBN-10: 9004438661
ISBN-13: 9789004438668
Publisher: Brill
Language: English
Published: 06/04/2020
Pages: 842
Format: Paperback
Weight: 2.55lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.10w x 2.00d
By Richard Van Leeuwen
By Richard Van Leeuwen
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Richard van Leeuwen, Ph.D. (1992) University of Amsterdam, is senior lecturer in Islamic Studies at that university. He has published widely on the history of the Middle East, Arabic literature, and Islam, and is also a translator of Arabic literature. His publications include Notables and Clergy in Mount Lebanon (Brill 1994); Waqfs and Urban Structures (Brill 1999); (2004; The Arabian Nights Encyclopedia, 2 vols. (Santa Barbara 2004; with U. Marzolph); The Thousand and One Nights: space, travel and transformation (2007) and Narratives of Kingship in Eurasian Empires, 1300-1800 (Brill 2017).

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