Stranger Magic - Charmed States and the Arabian Nights Warner Marina
Stranger Magic - Charmed States and the Arabian Nights Warner Marina Our foremost theorist of myth, fairytales, and folktales explores the magical realm of the imagination where carpets fly, objects…
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Stranger Magic - Charmed States and the Arabian Nights Warner Marina
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. Writers from Voltaire to Goethe to Borges, filmmakers from Raoul Walsh on, and countless authors of children's books have adapted its stories. 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 si cle des Lumi res, inspiring imitations, spoofs, turqueries, extravaganzas, pantomimes, and mauresque tastes in dress and furniture.
Their appeal, What gives these tales their enduring power to bring pleasure to readers and audiences?