"The Thousand and One Nights was secular literature, not approved by the cultured literary classes as literature at all. It existed as a popular entertainment and much of it expressed the desires, wishes and experiences of a middle to lower class urban and mercantile people. How…
"The Thousand and One Nights was secular literature, not approved by the cultured literary classes as literature at all. It existed as a popular entertainment and much of it expressed the desires, wishes and experiences of a middle to lower class urban and mercantile people. How…
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 …
"The Thousand and One Nights was secular literature, not approved by the cultured literary classes as literature at all. It existed as a popular entertainment and much of it expressed the desires, wishes and experiences of a middle to lower class urban and mercantile people. How…
"Magic is not simply a matter of the occult arts, but a whole way of thinking, of dreaming the impossible. As such it has tremendous force in opening the mind to new realms of achievement: imagination precedes the fact. It used to be associated with wisdom, understanding the pow…
"Magic is not simply a matter of the occult arts, but a whole way of thinking, of dreaming the impossible. As such it has tremendous force in opening the mind to new realms of achievement: imagination precedes the fact. It used to be associated with wisdom, understanding the pow…
"In applying the standards of modern literary criticism to medieval Arabic literature, Andras Hamori concentrates on those aspects of the literature that appear most alien to modern Western taste: the limitation of themes, the sedimentation with conventions, and the use of elusi…
