TY - BOOK AU - Warner,Marina TI - Stranger magic: charmed states & the Arabian nights SN - 9780099437697 (pbk.) AV - PJ77.7 .W37 2012 PY - 2012/// CY - London PB - Vintage KW - Arabian nights KW - Influence KW - Appreciation KW - Europe KW - Translations KW - Myth in literature KW - Orientalism in literarue KW - Tales KW - Arabian Peninsula KW - History and criticism KW - Magic in literature N1 - Winner of Sheikh Zayed Book Awards 2013.; Originally published: London : Chatto and Windus, 2011; Includes bibliographical references (pages [499]-516) and index. N2 - 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 ER -