One Thousand and One Nights

One Thousand and One Nights
Author: Hanan Al-Shaykh
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2011-08-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1408826046

The Arab world's greatest folk stories re-imagined by the acclaimed Lebanese novelist Hanan al-Shaykh, published to coincide with the world tour of a magnificent musical and theatrical production directed by Tim Supple

The Floating Opera

The Floating Opera
Author: John Barth
Publisher: American Literature
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781564789181

Written when John Barth was 24 years old, The Floating Opera is his first novel, published in 1957. It is a first-person reminiscence of the day Todd Andrews decided to commit suicide. Having picked up some sense of the French Existentialist writers from the postwar Zeitgeist, this novel questions life's value through the eyes of a 37-year-old man.

The Arabian Nights

The Arabian Nights
Author: Mary Zimmerman
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Total Pages: 174
Release: 2005-02-15
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 0810120941

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The Thousand and One Nights

The Thousand and One Nights
Author: Ibrahim Akel
Publisher: Studies on Performing Arts & L
Total Pages: 343
Release: 2020
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9789004428959

The Thousand and One Nightsdoes 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 Nightsgradually entered world literature through the great novels of the day and through music, cinema and other art forms. Material inspired by the Nightshas continued to emerge from many different countries, periods, disciplines and languages, and the scope of the Nightshas 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.

One Thousand One

One Thousand One
Author: Jason Grote
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
Total Pages: 77
Release: 2009
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 0573663882

First produced in January 2007 at The Denver Center Theater, Denver, Colorado.

A Thousand Nights

A Thousand Nights
Author: E. K. Johnston
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Total Pages: 269
Release: 2015-10-04
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1484728998

"A story threaded with shimmering vibrance and beauty, A Thousand Nights will weave its spell over readers' hearts and leave them captivated long after the final tale has been told." -- Alexandra Bracken, New York Times best-selling author of The Darkest Minds series A dazzling retelling of Arabian Nights, A THOUSAND NIGHTS is a tale of family, love and power that would not feel out of place if Scheherazade herself were telling it. And maybe she is... Lo-Melkhiin killed three hundred girls before he came to her village, looking for a wife. When she sees the dust cloud on the horizon, she knows he has arrived. She knows he will want the loveliest girl: her sister. She vows she will not let her be next. And so she is taken in her sister's place. Night after night, Lo-Melkhiin comes to her and listens to the stories she tells, and day after day she is awoken by the sunrise. Exploring the palace, she begins to unlock years of fear that have tormented and silenced a kingdom. Lo-Melkhiin was not always a cruel ruler. Something went wrong. Far away, back in their village, her sister is mourning. Through her pain, she calls upon the desert winds, conjuring a subtle unseen magic, and something besides death stirs the air. Then at the palace, the words she speaks to Lo-Melkhiin every night are given a strange life of their own. Little things, at first: a dress from home, a vision of her sister. With each tale she spins, her power grows. Soon she dreams of bigger, more terrible magic: power enough to save a king, if she can put an end to the rule of a monster.

The Arabian Nights Reader

The Arabian Nights Reader
Author: Ulrich Marzolph
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Total Pages: 398
Release: 2006
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780814332597

The Arabian Nights commands a place in world literature unrivaled by any other fictional work of "Oriental" provenance. Bringing together Indian, Iranian, and Arabic tradition, this collection of tales became popular in the Western world during the eighteenth century and has since exerted a profound influence on theater, opera, music, painting, architecture, and literature. The Arabian Nights Reader offers an authoritative guide to the research inspired by this rich and intricate work. Through a selection of sixteen influential and currently relevant essays, culled from decades of scholarship, this volume encompasses the most salient research topics to date, from the Nights' early history to interpretations of such famous characters as Sheherazade. While serious research on the Nights began early in the nineteenth century, some of the most puzzling aspects of the collection's complex history and character were solved only quite recently. This volume's topics reflect the makings of a transnational narrative: evidence of a ninth-century version of the Nights, the work's circulation among booksellers in twelfth-century Cairo, the establishment of a "canonical" text, the sources used by the French translator who introduced the Nights to the West and the dating of this French translation, the influence of Greek literature on the Nights, the genre of romance, the relationship between narration and survival within the plots, reception of the Nights from the nineteenth century onward, interpretations of single stories from the collection, the universal nature of the sexual politics surrounding Sheherazade, and the repercussion of the Nights in modern Arabic literature. As this collection demonstrates, the Arabian Nights helped shape Western perceptions of the "Orient" as the quintessential "Other" while serving to inspire Western creativity. The research presented here not only deepens our insight into this great work but also heightens our awareness of the powerful communal forces of transnational narrative.

One Thousand and One Nights, Vol. 6

One Thousand and One Nights, Vol. 6
Author: JinSeok Jeon
Publisher: Yen Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2008-12-16
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 9780759528765

Socrates and Alcibiades must combat intrigue in plague-ravaged Athens when Critias conspires to tear the lovers apart...but the conspiracy doesn't end with Sehara's Tale. As Shahryar prepares to oust invading Crusaders, a betrayal from within diverts his attention from battle and leaves his kingdom - and Sehara - vulnerable to attack!

Opera Production

Opera Production
Author: Eaton
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Total Pages: 286
Release: 1974
Genre: Opera
ISBN: 1452911010