Scheherazade's Children: Global Encounters with the Arabian Nights Contributor(s): Kennedy, Philip F. (Editor), Warner, Marina (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1479857092 ISBN-13: 9781479857098 Publisher: New York University Press OUR PRICE: $28.50 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2013 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | Middle Eastern - Social Science | Folklore & Mythology |
Dewey: 398.22 |
LCCN: 2013007849 |
Physical Information: 1.3" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" (1.45 lbs) 466 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Kennedy, Philip F.: - Philip F. Kennedy is Associate Professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies and Comparative Literature at New York University, and Vice Provost for Public Programming for the NYU Abu Dhabi Institute.Warner, Marina: - Marina Warner is Professor of English and Creative Writing at Birkbeck College, University of London and a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, and a Fellow of the British Academy. Her most recent book, Stranger Magic: Charmed States and the Arabian Nights, won the 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism, as well as the 2013 Sheikh Zayed Book Award. |