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Contents

Preface by Robert Irwin

Introduction: The Imagined Other and the Reflected Self (Yuriko Yamanaka, Tetsuo Nishio)

I. Motifs and Formulas

1. The 'Arabian Nights' in Comparative Folk Narrative Research (Ulrich Marzolph)

2. Mythological Constituents of Alf laylah wa laylah (Hasan El-Shamy)

3. Formulas and Formulaic Pictures: Elements of Oral Literature in the 'Thousand and One Nights' (Kathrin Muller)

4. Repetitivenes in the 'Arabian Night': Openness as Self-Foundation (Etsuko Aoyagi)

II. Sources and Influences

5. Alexander in the 'Thousand and One Nights' and the Ghazali Connection (Yuriko Yamanaka)

6. The 'Arabian Nights' in Modern Japan: A Brief Historical Sketch (Hideaki Sugita)

7. The 'Arabian Nights' and Orientalism from a Japanese Perspective (Tetsuo Nishio)

III. Text and Image

8. The Evolution of the 'Arabian Nights' Illustrations: An Art Historical Review (Kazue Kobayashi)

9. Body, Voice and Gaze: Text and Illustration in the Frame Story of the 'Thousand and One Nights' (Akiko Motoyoshi Sumi and Claus Cluver)

10. The Image of Sheherazade in French and English Editions of the 'Thousand and One Nights' (Margaret Sironval)

Bibliography

Index

Index of Cycles and Takes from the 'Nights'