New Perspectives on Arabian Nights

Name: New Perspectives on Arabian Nights
Rating: 4.6 (30 reviews)
ISBN: 9781317983934

Sinopsis del Libro

Libro New Perspectives on Arabian Nights

Adopting a multi-disciplinary approach, this comparative study of a selection of The Arabian Nights stories in a cross-cultural context, brings together a number of disciplines and subject areas to examine the workings of narrative. It predominantly focuses on the ways in which the Arabian Nights have transformed as its stories have travelled across historical eras, cultures, genres and media. Departing from the familiar approaches of influence and textual studies, this book locates its central inquiry in the theoretical questions surrounding the workings of ideology, genre and genre ideology in shaping and transforming stories. The ten essays included in this volume respond to a general question, ‘what can the transformation of Nights stories in their travels tell us about narrative and storytelling, and their function in a particular culture?’ Following a Nights story in its travels from past to present, from Middle East to Europe and from literature to film, the book engages in close comparative analyses of ideological variations found in a variety of texts. These analyses allow new modes of reading texts and make it possible to breach new horizons for thinking about narrative. This Book was previously published as a special issue of Middle Eastern Literatures entitled Ideological Variations and Narrative Horizons: New Perspectives on Arabian Nights.

Ficha del Libro

Número de páginas 160

Autor:

Wen-chin Ouyang
Geert Jan Van Gelder

Categoría:

Crítica Literaria

Formatos Disponibles:

MOBI, PDF, EPUB, AZW

¿Cómo descargar el libro?

Valoración

Popular

4.6

30 Valoraciones Totales

Más libros de la categoría Crítica Literaria

The Poem of Fernán González

Fernan Gonzalez lived from about AD 910 to 970. The popular image of him is of a fearsome warrior who gave his people protection from their enemies (both Muslim and Christian), and a wise and respected lord who enabled them to live in security and harmony. He was generally accepted to have played a strategic role in achieving independence for Castile and freeing it from dominance by the kingdom of Leon. The Poema de Fernan Gonzalez was composed (by an unknown author) in the mid-thirteenth century as an enduring celebration of his triumphs and account of his life and deeds. Fact and legend...

El monstruoso relato de Prosper Reding

Making a pact with the devil is not as easy as it looks. On one hand, you get fame and fortune for over 800 years, but, on the other hand, you have to become a vengeful being willing to condemn yourself to a lifetime of servitude. Prosper will try to avoid this by returning the devil Alastor to his world before he destroys her family. In order to accomplish this, she will have to avoid numerous traps, tricks, and Alastor's wicked sense of humor with only the help of her Uncle Barnabas, a witch's apprentice, and a cat with bat wings.

Breve historia de la literatura argentina

La obra, guiada por criterios claros y comprometidos, da cuenta de los principales textos, autores, movimientos, tendencias y géneros que dibujan el corpus literario argentino en forma sucinta pero rigurosa y funcional.

TEORÍA E HISTORIA DE LA PRODUCCIÓN IDEOLÓGICA

La literatura no ha existido siempre. Los discursos a los que hoy aplicamos el nombre de «literarios» constituyen una realidad histórica que sólo ha podido surgir a partir de una serie de condiciones –asimismo históricas– muy estrictas: las condiciones derivadas del nivel ideológico característico de las formaciones sociales «modernas» o «burguesas» en sentido general. En consecuencia, habrá que preguntarse: ¿qué caracterizaciones concretas otorga el horizonte teórico actual a los discursos literarios? ¿Qué sentido real puede poseer entonces toda esa amplia gama de...

Últimos Libros