Acknowledgments |
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Introduction |
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The Thousand and One Nights |
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3 | (4) |
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Incorporation into World Literature |
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7 | (3) |
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10 | (11) |
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PART 1 Enclosures, Journeys, and Texts |
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1 Enclosures, Letters, and Destiny: Hugo von Hofmannsthal and I Andre Gide |
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21 | (38) |
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Hugo von Hofmannsthal, the Kunstmarchen, and Orientalism |
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22 | (19) |
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The Contingency of Fate: Andre Gide's Lesfaux-monnayeurs |
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41 | (18) |
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2 Going Home: Al-Tayyib Salih and Ibrahim al-Faqih |
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59 | (34) |
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Season of Migration to the North and the Thousand and One Nights |
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62 | (13) |
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The Forbidden Room: The Thousand and One Nights and Ibrahim al-Faqih's Gardens of the Night |
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75 | (18) |
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3 Writing and Enclosures: Michel Butor and Abilio Estevez |
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93 | (24) |
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The Portrait of an Author: Michel Butor's Portrait de I'artiste comme jeune singe |
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93 | (9) |
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Imprisoned Imagination: Abilio Estevez |
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102 | (10) |
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112 | (5) |
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PART 2 Capturing the Volatility of Time |
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4 The Return of Time: Marcel Proust and Ahmet Hamdi Tanpmar |
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117 | (32) |
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Proust and the Thousand and One Nights |
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118 | (10) |
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Times of Life and Society: Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar |
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128 | (21) |
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5 Narration and Survival: Vladimir Nabokov and Margaret Atwood |
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149 | (36) |
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Nabokov, the Thousand and One Nights, and Life After Death |
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150 | (21) |
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Narrating Against Death: Margaret Atwood |
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171 | (14) |
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6 Desire Unbound: The Marquis de Sade and Angela Carter |
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185 | (26) |
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Angela Carter: The Feminist-Narrative Complex |
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188 | (23) |
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7 Temporal Dystopias: Botho Strauss and Haruki Murakami |
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211 | (40) |
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War and the Reinvention of Time: Botho Strauss's Derjunge Mann |
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211 | (12) |
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Haruki Murakami and the Constraints of Time |
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223 | (19) |
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242 | (9) |
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PART 3 The Textual Universe |
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8 The Celebration of Textuality: James Joyce and the Argentine (Post-)Modernists |
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251 | (66) |
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The Thousand and One Nights and the Textuality of Ulysses and Finnegans Wake |
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255 | (14) |
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Textual Worlds: Fernandez, Arlt, Borges, and Piglia |
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269 | (48) |
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9 Stories Without End: Italo Calvino and Georges Perec |
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317 | (31) |
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Italo Calvino and Narration: If on a Winter's Night a Traveller and the Thousand and One Nights |
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319 | (13) |
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Georges Perec: The Imperative of Form |
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332 | (16) |
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10 The Celebration of Hybridity: Abdelkebir Khatibi and Juan Goytisolo |
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348 | (33) |
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Abdelkebir Khatibi: Narration and the Body |
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349 | (9) |
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Juan Goytisolo: Hybridity as a Refuge |
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358 | (14) |
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372 | (9) |
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11 The Traumas of History: William Faulkner, Toni Morrison, and Andre Brink |
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381 | (26) |
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383 | (3) |
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386 | (3) |
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Absalom, Absalom! and the Thousand and One Nights |
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389 | (6) |
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The Haunted House: Toni Morrison's Beloved and Andre Brink's Imaginings of Sand |
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395 | (12) |
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12 The Enchantment of History: Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Salman Rushdie |
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407 | (33) |
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez and One Hundred Years of Solitude |
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409 | (14) |
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Salman Rushdie: History Gone Awry |
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423 | (17) |
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13 Words Against Death: Roberto Calasso, David Grossman, and Elias Khoury |
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440 | (45) |
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Roberto Calasso: The Ruin of Kasch |
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442 | (4) |
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David Grossman: Fighting the Nazi Beast |
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446 | (12) |
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Violence and the Boundaries of Narrativity: Elias Khoury's Yalo |
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458 | (18) |
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476 | (9) |
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PART 5 Identifications, Impersonations, Doubles: The Discontents of (Post-)Modemity |
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14 Aladdin's Nightmare: Henrik Pontoppidan and Ernst Junger |
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485 | (40) |
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The Curse of Aladdin: Henrik Pontoppidan |
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486 | (7) |
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The City of Brass, Aladdin, and the Discontents of Modernity: Ernstjunger |
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493 | (32) |
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15 The Sindbad Syndrome: Gyula Krudy and John Barth |
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525 | (33) |
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Gyula Krudy: The Nostalgic Nomad |
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528 | (11) |
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The Intrepid Traveler: John Barth |
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539 | (19) |
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16 The Mock Caliph: H. G. Wells, Arthur Schnitzler, and Orhan Pamuk |
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558 | (33) |
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A Modern Harun al-Rashid: H. G. Wells's The Research Magnificent |
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559 | (5) |
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Arthur Schnitzler's Der Traumnovelle |
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564 | (6) |
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The Writer and His Double: Orhan Pamuk's The Black Book |
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570 | (21) |
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17 The Multiple Faces of Shahrazad: Leila Sebbar and Waciny Laredj |
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591 | (38) |
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592 | (18) |
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Waciny Laredj: Les ailes de la reine |
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610 | (11) |
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621 | (8) |
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PART 6 Aftermaths: The Delusions of Politics |
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18 The 1002nd Night: Tawfiq al-Hakim, Taha Husayn, and Najib Mahfuz |
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Tawfiq al-Hakim: Shahrazad |
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633 | (12) |
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Taha Husayn: The Dreams of Shahrazad |
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645 | (5) |
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Najib Mahfuz: The Predicament of Shahriyar |
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650 | (17) |
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19 Fabrications of Power: Hani al-Rahib and Rachid Boudjedra |
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667 | (23) |
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The Curse of Repression: al-Rahib's Alf layla wa-laylatan |
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668 | (14) |
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A False Utopia: Rachid Boudjedra |
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682 | (8) |
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20 The Secret Lives of Sindbad: Mostafa Nissaboury and Bahram Beyza'i |
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690 | (11) |
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Mostafa Nissaboury: Shahrazad's Suffering |
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691 | (4) |
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Sindbad's Return: Bahram Beyzai |
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695 | (4) |
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699 | (2) |
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701 | (34) |
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The Narrative Universe of Paul Auster |
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701 | (1) |
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The Framework: The Invention of Solitude |
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702 | (6) |
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708 | (7) |
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715 | (10) |
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725 | (10) |
Bibliography |
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735 | (24) |
Index of People and Places |
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759 | (11) |
Index of Subjects |
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