The Arabian Nights in English Literary Theory (1704-1910); Scheherazade in England. An Expanded and Updated Version of the 1981 Edition

ISBN-13: 9781433197574 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022

Muhsin Al-Musawi

Opis

This book focuses on debates and controversies around the Arabian Nights, which made significant cultural inroads throughout European cultures in 18th-19th century. The book analyzes modes and patterns of reading, response, engagement, commentary, translations, claims to authentication, abridgements, and illustrations.

Spis treści

List of Figures - Preface - Preface to the New Edition - Acknowledgments - The Eighteenth- Century Reception of the Arabian Nights - The Growing Vogue of Scheherazade's Tales - Patterns of Critical Response: The Romantic Appraisal of Scheherazade's Aesthetics - Lane and the Victorian Literary Scene - A Panorama of Eastern Life - The Growth of Scholarly Interest in the Arabian Nights - A Selected Bibliography - Index.

O autorze

Muhsin J. al-Musawi is professor of classical and modern Arabic literature, comparative and cultural studies at Columbia University. He is the author of over thirty books (including 6 novels) and over sixty scholarly articles. His books include: The Islamic Context of the Thousand and One Nights (2009); The Postcolonial Arabic Novel: Debating Ambivalence (2003); Arabic Poetry: Trajectories of Modernity and Tradition (2006); Reading Iraq: Culture and Power in Conflict (2006); Islam on the Street: Religion in Arabic Literature (2009), selected as a Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2010; The Medieval Islamic Republic of Letters: Arabic Knowledge Construction (2015); Arabic Disclosures: The Postcolonial Autobiographical Atlas (forthcoming); The Arabian Nights in Contemporary World Cultures (forthcoming).His edited volumes include Arabic Literary Thresholds: Sites of Rhetorical Turn in Contemporary Scholarship (2009) and Arabic Literature for the Classroom (2017). He is the editor of the Journal of Arabic Literature, the foremost academic journal in the field of Arabic literature. He has also served as academic consultant for numerous academic institutions in the United States and abroad.Professor al-Musawi is the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including the highly prestigious 2002 Owais Award in Literary Criticism and the 2018 Kuwait Prize in Arabic Language and Literature.