The Thousand and One Nights / / Muhsin S. Mahdi.
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 tran...
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| Superior document: | Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures ; v.7 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden, The Netherlands : : E.J. Brill,, [1995] ©1995 |
| Year of Publication: | 1995 |
| Edition: | First edition. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (170 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; 1 Background; 2 Travelling, boundaries and narratives; 3 Roads to power; 4 Night and day: the two faces of man; 5 Marginality, individuality and the traveller; 6 The spirit of place; 7 The domains of love; 8 Magic and the logic of narrative space; 9 Some conclusions; Notes; Bibliography; Index