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Although many of its stories originated centuries ago in the Middle East, the 1001 Nights is regarded as a classic of world literature by virtue of the seminal French and English translations produced in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Supporting the suspicion that the story collection is more Parisian than Persian, some of its most famous tales, including the stories of Aladdin and Ali Baba, appear nowhere in the original sources. Yet as befits a world where magic lamps may conceal a jinni and fabulous treasures lie just beyond secret doors, the truth of the Nights is richer than standard criticism suggests. Marvellous Thieves recovers the cross-cultural encounters--the collaborations, borrowings, and acts of literary larceny--that produced the 1001 Nights in European languages. Ranging from the coffeehouses of Aleppo to the salons of Paris, from colonial Calcutta to Bohemian London, Paulo Lemos Horta introduces readers to the poets and scholars, pilgrims and charlatans who made crucial but largely unacknowledged contributions to this most famous of story collections. Each version of the Nights betrays the distinctive cultural milieu in which it was produced and the workshop atmosphere of its compilation. Time and again, Horta shows, stories were retold and elaborate commentaries added to remake the Nights in accordance with the personalities and ambitions of the storytellers and writers. Untangling the intricate web of invention and plagiarism that ensnares the Nights, Horta rehabilitates the voices hidden in its long history--voices that mirror the endless potential of Shahrazad's stories to proliferate.--

Arabic literature --- European influences. --- Arabian nights --- Authorship. --- Arabian nights. --- Middle Eastern literature --- North African literature --- Hikajat 1001 malem --- Hikayat 1001 malem --- Hikajat sariboe satoe malem --- Sariboe satoe malem --- Seribu satu malam --- Sen-ichiya monogatari --- Gafu issen ichiya monogatari --- Alf laylah wa-laylah --- Thousand nights and one night --- Thousand and one nights --- Alif laila --- Tysi︠a︡cha i odna nochʹ --- Tausendundeine Nacht --- Tisíc a jedná noc --- Hikayat sa-ribu satu malam --- I chʻien ling i yeh --- Book of the thousand nights and one night --- Mille et une nuits --- Book of a thousand nights and a night --- Thousand nights and a night --- Elef lailah ṿe-lailah --- Tales of the Arabian nights --- 1001 Nacht --- Mille e una notte --- Arabiyan naito --- One thousand and one nights --- 1001 nights --- Arabian nights entertainments --- Hazar ew mēk gisherner --- Cartea celor o mie și una nopți --- Mie și una nopți --- Cartea celor o 1001 nopți --- Elf leyle ve leyle --- Alf sakhar ve sakhar

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Scheherazade’s Children gathers together leading scholars to explore the reverberations of the tales of the Arabian Nights across a startlingly wide and transnational range of cultural endeavors. The contributors, drawn from a wide array of disciplines, extend their inquiries into the book’s metamorphoses on stage and screen as well as in literature—from India to Japan, from Sanskrit mythology to British pantomime, from Baroque opera to puppet shows. Their highly original research illuminates little-known manifestations of the Nights, and provides unexpected contexts for understanding the book’s complex history. Polemical issues are thereby given unprecedented and enlightening interpretations. Organized under the rubrics of Translating, Engaging, and Staging, these essays view the Nights corpus as a uniquely accretive cultural bundle that absorbs the works upon which it has exerted influence. In this view, the Arabian Nights is a dynamic, living and breathing cross-cultural phenomenon that has left its mark on fields as disparate as the European novel and early Indian cinema. While scholarly, the writers’ approach is also lively and entertaining, and the book is richly illustrated with unusual materials to deliver a sparkling and highly original exploration of the Arabian Nights’ radiating influence on world literature, performance, and culture.

Scheherazade (Legendary character) --- Arabian nights. --- Hikajat 1001 malem --- Hikayat 1001 malem --- Hikajat sariboe satoe malem --- Sariboe satoe malem --- Seribu satu malam --- Sen-ichiya monogatari --- Gafu issen ichiya monogatari --- Alf laylah wa-laylah --- Thousand nights and one night --- Thousand and one nights --- Alif laila --- Tysi︠a︡cha i odna nochʹ --- Tausendundeine Nacht --- Tisíc a jedná noc --- Hikayat sa-ribu satu malam --- I chʻien ling i yeh --- Book of the thousand nights and one night --- Mille et une nuits --- Book of a thousand nights and a night --- Thousand nights and a night --- Elef lailah ṿe-lailah --- Tales of the Arabian nights --- 1001 Nacht --- Mille e una notte --- Arabiyan naito --- One thousand and one nights --- 1001 nights --- Arabian nights entertainments --- Hazar ew mēk gisherner --- Cartea celor o mie și una nopți --- Mie și una nopți --- Cartea celor o 1001 nopți --- Elf leyle ve leyle --- Alf sakhar ve sakhar --- Scheherazade.

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The Thousand and One Nights does not fall into a scholarly canon or into the category of popular literature. It takes its place within a middle literature that circulated widely in medieval times. The Nights gradually entered world literature through the great novels of the day and through music, cinema and other art forms. Material inspired by the Nights has continued to emerge from many different countries, periods, disciplines and languages, and the scope of the Nights has continued to widen, making the collection a universal work from every point of view. The essays in this volume scrutinize the expanse of sources for this monumental work of Arabic literature and follow the trajectory of the Nights ’ texts, the creative, scholarly commentaries, artistic encounters and relations to science. Contributors: Ibrahim Akel, Rasoul Aliakbari, Daniel Behar, Aboubakr Chraïbi, Anne E. Duggan, William Granara, Rafika Hammoudi, Dominique Jullien, Abdelfattah Kilito, Magdalena Kubarek, Michael James Lundell, Ulrich Marzolph, Adam Mestyan, Eyüp Özveren, Marina Paino, Daniela Potenza, Arafat Abdur Razzaque, Ahmed Saidy, Johannes Thomann and Ilaria Vitali.

Arabic literature --- Arabian nights --- History and criticism. --- Influence. --- Hikajat 1001 malem --- Hikayat 1001 malem --- Hikajat sariboe satoe malem --- Sariboe satoe malem --- Seribu satu malam --- Sen-ichiya monogatari --- Gafu issen ichiya monogatari --- Alf laylah wa-laylah --- Thousand nights and one night --- Thousand and one nights --- Alif laila --- Tysi︠a︡cha i odna nochʹ --- Tausendundeine Nacht --- Tisíc a jedná noc --- Hikayat sa-ribu satu malam --- I chʻien ling i yeh --- Book of the thousand nights and one night --- Mille et une nuits --- Book of a thousand nights and a night --- Thousand nights and a night --- Elef lailah ṿe-lailah --- Tales of the Arabian nights --- 1001 Nacht --- Mille e una notte --- Arabiyan naito --- One thousand and one nights --- 1001 nights --- Arabian nights entertainments --- Hazar ew mēk gisherner --- Cartea celor o mie și una nopți --- Mie și una nopți --- Cartea celor o 1001 nopți --- Elf leyle ve leyle --- Alf sakhar ve sakhar --- Sources.

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Chef-d'œuvre littéralement invisible, Les Mille et une nuits d'Antoine Galland connaissent depuis bientôt trois siècles un succès, une célébrité et une influence qui n'ont d'égaux que l'aveuglement et le silence dont elles souffrent auprès de la critique et de l'histoire littéraires. Surprenante destinée, dont les causes les plus efficaces se révèlent être aussi les moins valables. Ce recueil de "Contes arabes", trop souvent considéré avec dédain comme une "simple traduction", frappe au contraire par son originalité. Reléguées d'ordinaire au rang de contes de nourrice, les histoires de Schéhérazade relèvent en réalité d'un art consommé et subtil, dont l'effet bénéfique sur le sultan qui les écoute (comme sur le lecteur qui les lit) est exemplaire. Modèle raffiné de la littérature du plaisir (ou de la littérature de plaisance), fidèle au goût et à l'esthétique de son temps, le chef-d'œuvre de Galland demande à devenir enfin visible ; de même que demande à être enfin levée l'hypothèque que la tradition persiste encore trop souvent à faire peser sur la fonction divertissante de toute littérature. C'est cette double réhabilitation qui est proposée ici, car l'une ne va pas sans l'autre. Le résultat souhaité est de voir Les Mille et une nuits et Galland mis enfin à la place qui leur revient : la première parmi les écrits et les écrivains de la fin du règne de Louis XIV.

Theory of literary translation --- French literature --- Galland, Antoine --- Galland, Antoine, --- Arabian nights --- Translations into French --- History and criticism. --- 840 "16" GALLAND, ANTOINE --- Franse literatuur--17e eeuw. Periode 1600-1699--GALLAND, ANTOINE --- 840 "16" GALLAND, ANTOINE Franse literatuur--17e eeuw. Periode 1600-1699--GALLAND, ANTOINE --- Galland, --- Hikajat 1001 malem --- Hikayat 1001 malem --- Hikajat sariboe satoe malem --- Sariboe satoe malem --- Seribu satu malam --- Sen-ichiya monogatari --- Gafu issen ichiya monogatari --- Alf laylah wa-laylah --- Thousand nights and one night --- Thousand and one nights --- Alif laila --- Tysi︠a︡cha i odna nochʹ --- Tausendundeine Nacht --- Tisíc a jedná noc --- Hikayat sa-ribu satu malam --- I chʻien ling i yeh --- Book of the thousand nights and one night --- Mille et une nuits --- Book of a thousand nights and a night --- Thousand nights and a night --- Elef lailah ṿe-lailah --- Tales of the Arabian nights --- 1001 Nacht --- Mille e una notte --- Arabiyan naito --- One thousand and one nights --- 1001 nights --- Arabian nights entertainments --- Hazar ew mēk gisherner --- Cartea celor o mie și una nopți --- Mie și una nopți --- Cartea celor o 1001 nopți --- Elf leyle ve leyle --- Alf sakhar ve sakhar --- Duizend en één nacht. --- Galland (Antoine). --- Mille et une nuits. --- Galand, A. --- GALLAND (ANTOINE), ORIENTALISTE FRANCAIS, 1646-1715 --- LES MILLE ET UNE NUITS --- Galland, Antoine, 1646-1715

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This work comprises a literary comparison of surviving alternative versions of selected narrative-cycles from the Nights. Pinault draws on the published Arabic editions - especially Bulaq, MacNaghten, and the fourteenth-century Galland text recently edited by Mahdi - as well as unpublished Arabic manuscripts from libraries in France and North Africa. The study demonstrates that significantly different versions have survived of some of the most famous tales from the Nights. Pinault notes how individual manuscript redactors employed - and sometimes modified - formulaic phrases and traditional narrative topoi in ways consonant with the themes emphasized in particular versions of a tale. He also examines the redactors' modification of earlier sources - Arabic chronicles and Islamic religious treatises, geographers' accounts and medieval legends - for specific narrative goals. Comparison of the narrative structure of diverse story-collection also sheds new light on the relationship of the embedded subordinate-narrative to the overarching frame-tale.

Art de conter --- Art de dire les contes --- Art de raconter des histoires --- Art du conte --- Art du conteur --- Contes -- Art de dire --- Conteurs -- Art de dire --- Narration (Rhetoric) --- Narration (Rhétorique) --- Narrative writing --- Story-telling --- Storytelling --- Telling of stories --- Verhaal (Retoriek) --- Vertelkunst --- Narration --- Arabian nights --- Style --- Oral interpretation --- Children's stories --- Folklore --- Oral interpretation of fiction --- Narrative (Rhetoric) --- Rhetoric --- Discourse analysis, Narrative --- Narratees (Rhetoric) --- Performance --- Storytelling. --- Style. --- Narration (Rhetoric). --- Hikajat 1001 malem --- Hikayat 1001 malem --- Hikajat sariboe satoe malem --- Sariboe satoe malem --- Seribu satu malam --- Sen-ichiya monogatari --- Gafu issen ichiya monogatari --- Alf laylah wa-laylah --- Thousand nights and one night --- Thousand and one nights --- Alif laila --- Tysi︠a︡cha i odna nochʹ --- Tausendundeine Nacht --- Tisíc a jedná noc --- Hikayat sa-ribu satu malam --- I chʻien ling i yeh --- Book of the thousand nights and one night --- Mille et une nuits --- Book of a thousand nights and a night --- Thousand nights and a night --- Elef lailah ṿe-lailah --- Tales of the Arabian nights --- 1001 Nacht --- Mille e una notte --- Arabiyan naito --- One thousand and one nights --- 1001 nights --- Arabian nights entertainments --- Hazar ew mēk gisherner --- Cartea celor o mie și una nopți --- Mie și una nopți --- Cartea celor o 1001 nopți --- Elf leyle ve leyle --- Alf sakhar ve sakhar --- Arabian nights - Style. --- Les mille et une nuits