Contents:

Scheherazade's Web:
The 1001 Nights & Comparative Literature

[14th-century ms. of the Nights (Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris)]

1. Preface


• Scheherazades


2. Introduction: Redu ‘92


• The School for Paradox


3. Chapter 1: Malory and Scheherazade


• Malory


• Scheherazade


4. Chapter 2: Europe, Christianity and the Crusades


• Plot Summaries


5. Chapter 3: Voyage en Orient


6. Chapter 4: Parodies of the Arabian Nights


7. Chapter 5: The Poetics of Stasis


• J. L. Borges: Metaphors of the 1001 Nights


8. Bibliography


9. Chronology


10. Concordance


• A List of the Stories in the 1001 Nights


• Table of References

[The substance of this book was given as a course of 6 lectures: “East Meets West – The Lesson of the Thousand and One Nights” in the Continuing Education Department, Auckland University, from February to March, 1996.]