Stranger Magic: Charmed States and the Arabian Nights. Marina Warner

Stranger Magic: Charmed States and the Arabian Nights


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Stranger Magic: Charmed States and the Arabian Nights Marina Warner
Publisher: Harvard University Press


Our foremost theorist of myth, fairytales, and folktales explores the magical realm of the imagination where carpets fly, objects speak, dreams reveal hidden truths, and genies grant prophetic wishes. Stranger Magic examines the wondrous tales of the Arabian Nights, their profound impact on the West, and the progressive exoticization of magic since the eighteenth century, when the first European translations appeared. The Nights seized European readers' imaginations during the siГЁcle des LumiГЁres, inspiring imitations, spoofs, turqueries, extravaganzas, pantomimes, and mauresque tastes in dress and furniture. Writers from Voltaire to Goethe to Borges, filmmakers from Raoul Walsh on, and ...

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