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The Arabian Nights Reader.

Publication: Marvels & Tales
Publication Date: 01-OCT-08 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: The Arabian Nights Reader.(Book review)

Article Excerpt
The Arabian Nights Reader. Edited by Ulrich Marzolph. Series in Fairy Tale Studies. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2006. 392 pp.

Reading the essays selected for inclusion in The Arabian Nights Reader will take some readers on autobiographical journeys of their own development as Nights scholars. I found myself transported back to graduate school as I reread the essays from the 1970s and 1980s, those studies I had immersed myself in as I was finding my own voice and path through the Thousand and One Nights as a young academic. Nights scholars will all find themselves in one essay or another in Marzolph's representative sampling of twentieth-century scholarship. The original publication dates for these studies range from 1942 (Gustav E. von Grunebaum's "Greek Form Elements in the Arabian Nights") to 1997 (Fedwa Malti-Douglas's "Shahrazad Feminist"), and just as far-ranging are the paleographical, critical, and theoretical approaches these writers take to the Arabian Nights.

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