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Sheherazade through the Looking Glass: The Metamorphosis of the Thousand and One Nights

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The Thousand and One Nights was reborn into an alien environment in 1704, its signs being received in a radically different way from their original meanings. Works of literature change as people and cultures who read them change. This study explores the Nights with reference to this view of literature.

Author(s): Eva Sallis
Series: Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 1999

Language: English
Pages: 184
City: London

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of Abbreviations
Acknowledgements
Note on Transliteration
Chapter 1: Introduction to the Nights
Chapter 2: Arabic Textual History of the Alf layla wa-layla
Chapter 3: English Translation of the Thousand and One Nights
Chapter 4: Reading the Arabian Nights
Chapter 5: Sheherazade/Shahrazād: a Commentary on the Frame Tale
Chapter 6: Readings of Selected Stories and Anecdotes
Hārūn aI-Rashīd and the Arab Girl
The Pious Black Slave
Azīz and Azīza
Abdallah the Fisherman and Abdallah the Merman
Marūf the Cobbler
Afterword
Appendix
Bibliography
Primary Texts
Manuscripts
Secondary Texts: The Thousand and One Nights
Secondary Texts: General
Index