The Thousand and one nights and twentieth-century fiction : : intertextual readings / / by Richard van Leeuwen.

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 app...

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Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2018.
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East 124.
Physical Description:1 online resource (842 pages).
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Copyright page
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Enclosures, Journeys, and Texts
  • Enclosures, Letters, and Destiny: Hugo von Hofmannsthal and André Gide
  • Going Home: Al-Tayyib Salih and Ibrahim al-Faqih
  • Writing and Enclosures: Michel Butor and Abilio Estévez
  • Capturing the Volatility of Time
  • The Return of Time: Marcel Proust and Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar
  • Narration and Survival: Vladimir Nabokov and Margaret Atwood
  • Desire Unbound: The Marquis de Sade and Angela Carter
  • Temporal Dystopias: Botho Strauss and Haruki Murakami
  • The Textual Universe
  • The Celebration of Textuality: James Joyce and the Argentine (Post-)Modernists
  • Stories without End: Italo Calvino and Georges Perec
  • The Celebration of Hybridity: Abdelkébir Khatibi and Juan Goytisolo
  • Narrating History
  • The Traumas of History: William Faulkner, Toni Morrison, and André Brink
  • The Enchantment of History: Gabriel García Márquez and Salman Rushdie
  • Words Against Death: Roberto Calasso, David Grossman, and Elias Khoury
  • Identifications, Impersonations, Doubles: The Discontents of (Post-)Modernity
  • Aladdin’s Nightmare: Henrik Pontoppidan and Ernst Jünger
  • The Sindbad Syndrome: Gyula Krúdy and John Barth
  • The Mock Caliph: H. G. Wells, Arthur Schnitzler, and Orhan Pamuk
  • The Multiple Faces of Shahrazad: Leïla Sebbar and Waçiny Laredj
  • Aftermaths: The Delusions of Politics
  • The 1002nd Night: Tawfiq al-Hakim, Taha Husayn, and Najib Mahfuz
  • Fabrications of Power: Hani al-Rahib and Rachid Boudjedra
  • The Secret Lives of Sindbad: Mostafa Nissaboury and Bahram Beyzaï
  • Conclusion
  • Back Matter
  • Bibliography.