Stranger Magic: Charmed States and the Arabian Nights
by:
Marina Warner (author)
Our foremost theorist of myth, fairytale, and folktale explores the magical realm of the imagination where carpets fly and genies grant prophetic wishes. Stranger Magic examines the profound impact of the Arabian Nights on the West, the progressive exoticization of magic, and the growing...
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Our foremost theorist of myth, fairytale, and folktale explores the magical realm of the imagination where carpets fly and genies grant prophetic wishes. Stranger Magic examines the profound impact of the Arabian Nights on the West, the progressive exoticization of magic, and the growing acceptance of myth and magic in contemporary experience. (20111126)
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780674055308 (0674055306)
ASIN: 0674055306
Publish date: 2012-03-12
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pages no: 560
Edition language: English
The influence of Arabian Nights is far more enduring than one would at first think. In this book, Warner not only shows how the West adapted, changed, the tales but also suggests that in some ways the tales were feminist before the invention of the word. Sherazade who tells stories to educate her ...
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