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• catalog abstract ""Slave of Desire explores the stories in the anonymous medieval Arabic work The 1001 Nights. The tales that make up The 1001 Nights (also known as The Arabian Nights) are told by Shahrazad to King Shahriyar each night in order to ransom her life for one more day, and they have been recognized as classics of narrative art since their first appearance in European translation three centuries ago. The influence of the Nights since then has also been extensive; the stories of "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves," "Aladdin," and "Sinbad" have been mined for numerous Hollywood B movies, and at the same time crop up along with other stories and characters as allusions and points of reference in the works of such authors as Proust, Joyce, and Borges." "Slave of Desire, through its analyses of various stories, reveals The 1001 Nights to be a very different sort of work, a sophisticated and subtle piece of literature that can provoke and disturb as much as it entertains and amuses. Daniel Beaumont, a scholar of medieval Arabic literature, draws upon the ideas of Freud, Jacques Lacan, and Slavoj Zizek to explore the meaning of such famous stories as the frame tale of Shahrazad and King Shahriyar, "The Porter and the Three Ladies of Baghdad," "The Hunchback" and many others. He discusses the stories both in the context of medieval Islamic culture and in the wider context of world literature. A famous love story such as "Qamar al-Zaman" is considered both in terms of the medieval Islamic literature of love and Freudian notions; the story of Shahrazad and Shahriyar is probed by means of Kojeve's analysis of the master-slave relation; and the notion of "dream-work" is used to show how "The Merchant and the Jinni" reuses and transforms Biblical plots and characters for a medieval Muslim readership. By means of these and other wide-ranging comparisons with literary works both Arabic and Western, the author reveals surprising, and often amusing, aspects to the stories."--Jacket.".
• catalog contributor b12551468.
• catalog created "c2002.".
• catalog date "2002".
• catalog date "c2002.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c2002.".
• catalog description ""Slave of Desire explores the stories in the anonymous medieval Arabic work The 1001 Nights. The tales that make up The 1001 Nights (also known as The Arabian Nights) are told by Shahrazad to King Shahriyar each night in order to ransom her life for one more day, and they have been recognized as classics of narrative art since their first appearance in European translation three centuries ago. The influence of the Nights since then has also been extensive; the stories of "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves," "Aladdin," and "Sinbad" have been mined for numerous Hollywood B movies, and at the same time crop up along with other stories and characters as allusions and points of reference in the works of such authors as Proust, Joyce, and Borges." "Slave of Desire, through its analyses of various stories, reveals The 1001 Nights to be a very different sort of work, a sophisticated and subtle piece of literature that can provoke and disturb as much as it entertains and amuses. Daniel Beaumont, a scholar of medieval Arabic literature, draws upon the ideas of Freud, Jacques Lacan, and Slavoj Zizek to explore the meaning of such famous stories as the frame tale of Shahrazad and King Shahriyar, "The Porter and the Three Ladies of Baghdad," "The Hunchback" and many others. He discusses the stories both in the context of medieval Islamic culture and in the wider context of world literature. A famous love story such as "Qamar al-Zaman" is considered both in terms of the medieval Islamic literature of love and Freudian notions; the story of Shahrazad and Shahriyar is probed by means of Kojeve's analysis of the master-slave relation; and the notion of "dream-work" is used to show how "The Merchant and the Jinni" reuses and transforms Biblical plots and characters for a medieval Muslim readership. By means of these and other wide-ranging comparisons with literary works both Arabic and Western, the author reveals surprising, and often amusing, aspects to the stories."--Jacket.".
• catalog description "1. Alf Laylah wa Laylah or The Thousand and One Nights -- 2. The Imaginary, the Symbolic, and the Real: An Overview of Lacan -- 3. King, Queen, Master, Slave -- 4. The Mirror of Love -- 5. Double Trouble -- 6. The Circuit of Desire -- 7. The Sublime Wound -- 8. Peut-on tuer avec des noyaux de dattes? -- 9. The Destroyer of Delights.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-187) and index.".
• catalog extent "190 p. ;".
• catalog hasFormat "Slave of desire.".
• catalog identifier "0838638740 (alk. paper)".
• catalog isFormatOf "Slave of desire.".
• catalog issued "2002".
• catalog issued "c2002.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Madison [NJ] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; London ; Cranbury, NJ : Associated University Presses,".
• catalog relation "Slave of desire.".
• catalog subject "398.22 21".
• catalog subject "Arabian nights.".
• catalog subject "Death in literature.".
• catalog subject "Discourse analysis, Narrative.".
• catalog subject "Love in literature.".
• catalog subject "PJ7737 .B43 2002".
• catalog subject "Sex in literature.".
• catalog tableOfContents "1. Alf Laylah wa Laylah or The Thousand and One Nights -- 2. The Imaginary, the Symbolic, and the Real: An Overview of Lacan -- 3. King, Queen, Master, Slave -- 4. The Mirror of Love -- 5. Double Trouble -- 6. The Circuit of Desire -- 7. The Sublime Wound -- 8. Peut-on tuer avec des noyaux de dattes? -- 9. The Destroyer of Delights.".
• catalog title "Slave of desire : sex, love, and death in The 1001 nights / Daniel Beaumont.".
• catalog type "text".