Stranger magic : charmed states & the Arabian nights /
Warner, Marina, 1946-
Stranger magic : charmed states & the Arabian nights / by Marina Warner. - London : Vintage, 2012. - xx, 540 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
Winner of Sheikh Zayed Book Awards 2013. Originally published: London : Chatto and Windus, 2011
Includes bibliographical references (pages [499]-516) and index.
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
9780099437697 (pbk.) 0099437694 (pbk.)
Arabian nights
Arabian nights--Influence
Arabian nights--Appreciation--Europe.
Arabian nights--Translations.
Myth in literature
Orientalism in literarue
Tales--History and criticism.--Arabian Peninsula
Magic in literature.
Tales--Arabian Peninsula.
PJ77.7 / .W37 2012
Stranger magic : charmed states & the Arabian nights / by Marina Warner. - London : Vintage, 2012. - xx, 540 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
Winner of Sheikh Zayed Book Awards 2013. Originally published: London : Chatto and Windus, 2011
Includes bibliographical references (pages [499]-516) and index.
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
9780099437697 (pbk.) 0099437694 (pbk.)
Arabian nights
Arabian nights--Influence
Arabian nights--Appreciation--Europe.
Arabian nights--Translations.
Myth in literature
Orientalism in literarue
Tales--History and criticism.--Arabian Peninsula
Magic in literature.
Tales--Arabian Peninsula.
PJ77.7 / .W37 2012