Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Jason, Heda

Titel

Indexing of Folk and Oral Literature in the Islamdominated Cultural Area1

Ist Teil von

• Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 1996-02, Vol.59 (1), p.102-116

Ort / Verlag

Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

1996

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Galland's translation of the Arabian Nights in the eighteenth century brought to the wider European readership an awareness of the wealth of written folk literature of medieval provenance in the Near and Middle East. During the Romantic movement, popular translations or rewritings from Arabic, Turkish and Persian medieval folk literatures proliferated (see Appendix 1 below, Chauvin, no. 6; Marzolph, no. 10).