Few works of literature are as familiar and beloved as The Arabian Nights. Yet few remain also as unknown. In English, The Arabian Nights is a literary work of relatively recent date—the first versions of the tales appeared in English barely two hundred years ago. The tales are accompanied by a preface, a note on the text, and explanatory annotations.“Contexts” presents three of the oldest witnesses to The Arabian Nights in the Arabic tradition, together in English for the first time: an anonymous ninth-century fragment, Al Mas‘udi’s Muruj al-Dhahab, and Ibn al-Nadim’s The Fihrist. Also included are three related works by the nineteenth- and twentieth-century writers Edgar Allan Poe, Marcel Proust, and Taha Husayn.“Criticism” collects eleven wide-ranging essays on The Arabian Nights’ central themes by Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Josef Horovitz, Jorge Luis Borges, Francesco Gabrieli, Mia Irene Gerhardt, Tzvetan Todorov, Andras Hamori, Heinz Grotzfield, Jerome W. Clinton, Abdelfattah Kilito, and David Pinault.A Chronology of The Arabian Nights and a Selected Bibliography are also included.

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Utgivningsdatum2009-12-28
Mått213 x 215 x 29 mm
Vikt499 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieNorton Critical Editions
Antal sidor544
FörlagWW Norton & Co
ISBN9780393928082
ÖversättareHusain Haddawy

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Husain Haddawy was born and grew up in Baghdad, taught English and comparative literature at various American universities, wrote art criticism, and is now living in retirement in Thailand. Daniel Heller-Roazen is the Arthur W. Marks ’19 Professor of Comparative Literature and the Council of the Humanities at Princeton University. He is the author of The Enemy of All: Piracy and the Law of Nations; The Inner Touch: Archaeology of a Sensation, awarded the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literature Studies in 2008; Echolalias: On the Forgetting of Language; and Fortune’s Faces: The Roman de la Rose and the Poetics of Contingency. He has published articles on classical, medieval, and modern literature and philosophy and has edited, translated, and introduced Giorgio Agamben’s Potentialities: Collected Essays in Philosophy. Heller-Roazen’s books have been translated into many languages.

PrefaceA Note on the TextThe Text of The Arabian Nights1. Foreword2. Prologue3. [The Story of King Shahrayar and Shahrazad, His Vizier's Daughter]4. [The Tale of the Ox and the Donkey]5. [The Tale of the Merchant and His Wife]6. [The Story of the Merchant and the Demon]7. [The First Old Man's Tale]8. [The Second Old Man's Tale]9. [The Tale of King Yunan and the Sage Duban]10. [The Tale of the Husband and the Parrot]11. [The Tale of the King's Son and the She-Ghoul]12. [The Tale of the Enchanted King]13. [The Story of the Porter and the Three Ladies]14. [The First Dervish's Tale]15. [The Second Dervish's Tale]16. [The Tale of the Envious and the Envied]17. [The Third Dervish's Tale]18. [The Tale of the First Lady, the Mistress of the House]19. [The Tale of the Second Lady, the Flogged One]20. [The Story of the Three Apples]21. [The Story of the Two Viziers, Nur al-Din Ali al-Misri and Bar al-Din Hasan al-Basri]22. [The Story of the Hunchback]23. [The Christian Broker's Tale: The Young Man with the Severed Hand and the Girl]24. [The Steward's Tale: The Young Man from Baghdad and Lady Zubaida's Maid]25. [The Tailor's Tale: The Lame Young Man from Baghdad and the Barber]26. [The Tale of the Second Brother, Baqbaqa the Paraplegic]27. [The Tale of the Fifth Brother, the Cropped of Ears]28. [The Story of Jullanar of the Sea]29. [The Story of Sindbad the Sailor] ContextsEarly WitnessesAnonymous • A Ninth-Century Fragment of the Thousand NightsAl Mas'ûdi • Meadows of Gold (Murûj al-Dhahab)Ibn Ishâq Al-Nadîm • The FihristModern EchoesEdgar Allan Poe • The Thousand-and-Second Tale of ScheherazadeMarcel Proust • From Remembrance of Things PastTaha Husayn • From The Dreams of ScheherazadeCriticismHugo von Hofmannsthal • A Thousand and One NightsJosef Horovitz • The Origins of The Arabian NightsJorge Luis Borges • The Translators of The Thousand and One NightsFrancesco Gabrieli • The Thousand and One Nights in European CultureMia Irene Gerhardt • From The Art of Story-TellingTzvetan Todorov • Narrative MenAndras Hamori • A Comic Romance from The Thousand and One Nights: The Tale of Two ViziersHeinz Grotzfeld • Neglected Conclusions of The Arabian NightsJerome W. Clinton • Madness and Cure in the 1001 NightsAbdelfattah Kilito • The Eye and the NeedleDavid Pinault • Story-Telling Techniques in The Arabian NightsThe Arabian Nights: A ChronologySelected Bibliography