NES 3723

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NES 3723
The Arabian Nights: Then and Now

Course information provided by the 2014-2015 Catalog.

The medieval Arabic cycle of stories known as The Arabian Nights or The Thousand and One Nights is a classic of world literature. In the first part of the course we will read the Nights and discuss both its dominant themes-deceit, love, sex, revenge, violence, and justice-and its storytelling contexts and antecedents (e.g. the Sanskrit Jataka Tales and the Middle Persian Tales of Bidpai). And in the second part, we will explore the ways in which the Nights' themes and tales have been adapted and appropriated by authors such as Jan Potocki in Polish, Edgar Allan Poe, John Barth and Mary Zimmerman in English, Jorge Luis Borges in Spanish, and Naguib Mahfouz in Arabic itself; and by filmmakers such as Korda, Pasolini and Barron. All material is in English translation.


Distribution Category (LA-AS)

When Offered Fall.

Breadth Requirement (GHB)

Comments Co-meets with COML 6723/NES 6723.

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: COML 3723, COML 6723, NES 6723

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 15961 NES 3723   LEC 001

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