The Thousand and One Nights and Twentieth-Century Fiction - Intertextual Readings

In The Thousand and One Nights and Twentieth-Century Fiction, Richard van Leeuwen challenges conventional perceptions of the development of 20th-century prose by arguing that Thousand and One Nights, as an intertextual model, has been a crucial influence on authors who have contributed to shaping the main literary currents in 20th-century world literature, inspiring new forms and concepts of literature and texts.

About the author

Richard van Leeuwen, Ph.D. (1992) University of Amsterdam, is senior lecturer in Islamic Studies at that university. He has published widely on the history of the Middle East, Arabic literature, and Islam, and is also a translator of Arabic literature. His publications include Notables and Clergy in Mount Lebanon (Brill 1994); Waqfs and Urban Structures (Brill 1999); (2004; The Arabian Nights Encyclopedia, 2 vols. (Santa Barbara 2004; with U. Marzolph); The Thousand and One Nights: space, travel and transformation (2007) and Narratives of Kingship in Eurasian Empires, 1300-1800 (Brill 2017).

Product details

• Authors: Richard van Leeuwen
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.07.2018
• EAN: 9789004362536
• ISBN: 978-90-04-36253-6
• No. of pages: 842
• Dimensions: 163 mm x 239 mm x 58 mm
• Weight: 1338 g
• Series: Handbook of Oriental Studies.
• Subject: Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works > Dictionaries, encyclopaedias