Most Recent Articles from Marvels & Tales

• The teacher and the taught: structures and meaning in the Arabian Nights and the Panchatantra 

  The Arabian Nights and the Panchatantra are both works of Asian origin, and both have exercised their power over folkloric and literary imagination...

  10/01/04 by Sadhana Naithani · More from publication

• Slave-girl lost and regained: transformations of a story 

  A story found in many forms in Arabic has the following basic structure: (1) A man owns a slave-girl. Usually, the man is young and wealthy,...

  10/01/04 by Geert Jan van Gelder · More from publication

• The Annotated Classic Fairy Tales 

  The Annotated Classic Fairy Tales. Edited with an introduction and notes by Maria Tatar Translations by Maria Tatar New York: W.W. Norton &...

  10/01/04 by Janet L. Langlois · More from publication

• Pashtun Tales from the Pakistan-Afghan Frontier 

  Pashtun Tales from the Pakistan-Afghan Frontier. Edited by Aisha Ahmad and Roger Boase. London: Saqi Books, 2003. 379 pp. with folkloristic...

  10/01/04 by Sabir Badalkhan · More from publication

• The Emperor's Old Groove: Decolonizing Disney's Magic Kingdom 

  The Emperor's Old Groove: Decolonizing Disney's Magic Kingdom. Edited by Brenda Ayres. New York: Peter Long, 2003. 203 pp. The last decade has...

  10/01/04 by Jessica Tiffin · More from publication

• Further considerations on Galland's Mille et une Nuits: a study of the tales told by Hanna 

  Published between 1704 and 1717, the first European translation of the collection of stories commonly known in English as The Arabian Nights, is...

  10/01/04 by Sylvette Larzul · More from publication

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