"Irwin traces the development of the "stories within stories" from prehistoric India and Pharaonic Egypt to modern times, explores translations, additions, imitations, and plagiarizings, always in the context of the social history and counter-culture of the medieval Near East."@en
"Irwin traces the development of the "stories within stories" from prehistoric India and Pharaonic Egypt to modern times, explores translations, additions, imitations, and plagiarizings, always in the context of the social history and counter-culture of the medieval Near East."
"""The Arabian Nights"" has become a synonym for the fabulous and the exotic. Every child is familiar with the stories of Aladdin, Sinbad the Sailor and Ali Baba. Yet very few people, even specialists in oriential literature, have a clear idea of when the book was written or what exactly it is. Far from being a batch of stories for children, ""The Arabian Nights"" contains hundreds of narratives of all kinds - fables, epics, erotica, debates, fairy tales, political allegories, mystical anecdotes and comedies. It is a labyrinth of stories within stories. Widely held in contempt in the Middle Eas"@en
"Far from being children's stories, The Arabian Nights contains hundreds of narratives of all kinds - fables, epics, erotica, debates, fairy tales, political allegories, mystical anecdotes and comedies. It is a labyrinth of stories and of stories within stories."@en