Richard van Leeuwen

Ulrich Marzolph

The most comprehensive treatment of the Arabian Nights ever published, with more than 800 detailed encyclopedic entries and a wealth of authoritative essays and resources. The tales of the Arabian Nights have long been the focus of scholarly research and critique, but no English language work has ever attempted an all-embracing treatment of them. The fruit of years of research, The Arabian Nights Encyclopedia is the first comprehensive reference work introducing both the Arabian Nights and the context of their genesis and aftermath in Near Eastern, European, and world culture. Editors Ulrich Marzolph, one of the world's foremost scholars of Near Eastern narrative culture, and Richard van Leeuwen, a prominent scholar of the Arabian Nights, present detailed, authoritative, and up-to-date research on virtually all aspects of the tales, including major protagonists, themes, important translations, textual history, adaptations, reworkings, works inspired by the Arabian Nights, and aspects of literary theory, and provide extensive bibliographies for each tale. In addition to the 800+ encyclopedic entries and numerous essays, the work introduces research that has not previously been published, making it an invaluable resource to scholars, educators, students, and the general public, as well as an essential addition to the core collection of academic and public libraries.

[2 volumes]

The Arabian Nights Encyclopedia [2 volumes]

In many stories of the well-known masterpiece of Arabic literature, the Thousand and one nights, themes and motifs of space and travel are of essential importance for the structure of the narrative. This volume discusses these themes and shows that they are used not only as a setting in which the story to the final denouement.

Space, Travel and Transformation

The Thousand and One Nights

Hassan Wassouf

The most comprehensive treatment of the Arabian Nights ever published, with more than 800 detailed encyclopedic entries and a wealth of authoritative essays and resources. * Includes 800+ encyclopedic entries covering all aspects of the Arabian Nights * Begins with a fascinating introduction and a variety of essays by renowned scholars, presenting areas of pivotal interest and concern * Includes a concordance of tales in different editions and translations * Provides an extensive bibliography, featuring reference works published in English and other languages

The Arabian Nights Encyclopedia

This volume discusses The Thousand and One Nights' themes of space and travel showing how they are used not only as a setting in which the story unfolds, but also as the dynamic force which propels the heroes and the story to the final dénouement. These events often symbolize a process of transformation, in which the hero has to search for his destined role or strive to attain the object of his desire. In this way, themes of travel are the narrative backbone of stories of various genres including love, religion, magic and adventure. This book not only gives a fresh approach to many stories of the collection, but also proposes new insights in the nature of The Thousand and one Nights as a self-reflexive narrative and is essential reading for scholars of Arabic literature.

Deel 1 begint met het kaderverhaal. Daarin wordt verhaald hoe koning Sjahriaar wordt bedrogen, hoe hij na iedere nacht een jonge maagd doodt en Sjahrazaad de moordzucht van de koning met haar vertelkunst weet in te tomen. Deel 1 bevat naast andere verhalen ook een ridderroman ('Het verhaal van Oemar an-Noe'maan en zijn zoons'). Deel 2 bevat onder andere de verhalen van de slangekoningin, Sindbad de zeevaarder en de listen der vrouwen. Deel 3 bevat onder andere de verhalen (van Hassan) uit Basra, Noer Ad-Dien en Marjam, etc. Oorspr. Ned. uitg.: Amsterdam : Bulaaq, 1993-1999.

De vertellingen van duizend-en-één-nacht

In The Thousand and One Nights and Twentieth-Century Fiction, Richard van Leeuwen challenges conventional perceptions of the development of 20th-century prose by arguing that Thousand and One Nights, as an intertextual model, has been a crucial influence on authors who have contributed to shaping the main literary currents in 20th-century world literature, inspiring new forms and concepts of literature and texts.

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