Stranger magic: charmed states and the Arabian nights
Magic is not simply a matter of the occult arts, but a whole way of thinking, of dreaming the impossible. As such it has tremendous force in opening the mind to new realms of achievement: imagination precedes the fact. It used to be associated with wisdom, understanding the powers of nature, and wit...
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| Zusammenfassung: | Magic is not simply a matter of the occult arts, but a whole way of thinking, of dreaming the impossible. As such it has tremendous force in opening the mind to new realms of achievement: imagination precedes the fact. It used to be associated with wisdom, understanding the powers of nature, and with technical ingenuity that could let men do things they had never dreamed of before. The supreme fiction of this magical thinking is the Arabian Nights, with its flying carpets, hidden treasure and sudden revelations |
| Beschreibung: | XX, 540, [16] S. Ill. |
| ISBN: | 9780701173319 9780674055308 |
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Contents
List of Illustrations
xi
Acknowledgements
xvii
Introduction
ι
Part I Solomon the Wise King
Story
ι.
The Fisherman and the Genie
33
Chapter
1.
Master of Jinn
36
Story
2.
The City of Brass
54
Chapter
2.
Riding the Wind: The Flying Carpet I
59
Story
3.
Prince Ahmed and Fairy Peri Banou
71
Chapter
3.
A Tapestry of Great Price: The Flying Carpet II
74
Part
Π
Dark Arts; Strange Gods
Story
4.
The Prince of the Black Islands
87
Chapter
4.
The Worst Witch
91
Chapter
5.
Egyptian Attitudes
97
Story
5.
Hasan of Basra
117
Chapter
6.
Magians and Dervishes
126
Story
6.
A Fortune Regained
141
Chapter
7.
Dream Knowledge
143
Part
Ш
Active Goods
Chapter
8.
'Everything You Desire to Know about the East
. . .' 163
Story
7.
The Greek King and Doctor Douban
191
Chapter
9.
The Thing-World of the Arabian Nights
195
Story
8.
Abu Mohammed the Lazy
210
Chapter
10.
The Word of the Talisman
215
Story
д.
Marouf the Cobbler
234
Chapter
11.
The Voice of the Toy
240
Chapter
12.
Money Talks
252
Part
IV
Oriental Masquerades
Chapter
13.
Magnificent Moustaches: Hamilton's Fooling,
Voltaire's Impersonations
265
Story
10.
Rosebud and
Uns al-Wujud,
the Darling Boy
282
Story
11.
ТІге
Jinniya and the Egyptian Prince
284
Chapter
14.
'Symbols of Wonder': William Beckford's Arabesque
289
Chapter
15.
Oriental Masquerade: Goethe's West-Eastern Divan
309
PartV Flights of Reason
Sfory
12.
Cantar al-Zaman
and Princess Badoura
325
Chapter
16.
Thought Experiments: Flight before Flight
330
Chapter
17.
Why Aladdin?
357
Chapter
18.
Machine Dreams
371
Story
13.
The Ebony Horse
387
Chapter
19.
The Shadows of
Lotte Reiniger 390
Story
14.
Aladdin of the Beautiful Moles
403
Chapter
20.
The Couch: A Case History
405
Story
íj.
Prince Ardashir and Hayat al-Nufus
425
Conclusion: 'All the story of the night told over
. . .' 429
Glossary
437
Abbreviations
439
The Stories
441
Notes
445
Bibliography
499
Index
517 |
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