{"product_id":"new-perspectives-on-arabian-nights-paperback-softback","title":"New Perspectives on Arabian Nights - Paperback \/ softback","description":"\u003cp\u003eAdopting a multi-disciplinary approach, this comparative study of a selection of \u003cem\u003eThe Arabian Nights\u003c\/em\u003e stories in a cross-cultural context, brings together a number of disciplines and subject areas to examine the workings of narrative. It predominantly focuses on the ways in which the \u003cem\u003eArabian Nights\u003c\/em\u003e have transformed as its stories have travelled across historical eras, cultures, genres and media. Departing from the familiar approaches of influence and textual studies, this book locates its central inquiry in the theoretical questions surrounding the workings of ideology, genre and genre ideology in shaping and transforming stories. The ten essays included in this volume respond to a general question, ‘what can the transformation of Nights stories in their travels tell us about narrative and storytelling, and their function in a particular culture?’ \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFollowing a \u003cem\u003eNights\u003c\/em\u003e story in its travels from past to present, from Middle East to Europe and from literature to film, the book engages in close comparative analyses of ideological variations found in a variety of texts. These analyses allow new modes of reading texts and make it possible to breach new horizons for thinking about narrative.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis Book was previously published as a special issue of \u003cem\u003eMiddle Eastern Literatures \u003c\/em\u003eentitled \u003cem\u003eIdeological Variations and Narrative Horizons: New Perspectives on Arabian Nights.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45575932838126,"sku":"9780415759151","price":74.39,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookland.com.au\/products\/new-perspectives-on-arabian-nights-paperback-softback","provider":"Book Land AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}