The Arabian nights and orientalism: perspectives from East & West

Introduction : the imagined other and the reflected self / Yuriko Yamanaka and Tetsuo Nishio

I. Motifs and formulas

1. Arabian Nights in comparative folk narrative research / Ulrich Marzolph

2. Mythological constituents of Alf layla wa layla / Hasan El Shamy

3. Formulas and formulaic pictures : elements of oral literature in the Thousand and One Nights / Kathrin Muller

4. Repetitiveness in The Arabian Nights : openness as self-foundation / Etsuko Aoyagi

II. Sources and influences

5. Alexander in the Thousand and One Nights and the Ghaza connection / Yuriko Yamanaka

6. Arabian Nights in modern Japan : a brief historical sketch / Hideaki Sugita

7. Arabian Nights and orientalism from a Japanese perspective / Tetsuo Nishio

III. Text and image

8. evolution of the Arabian Nights illustrations : an art historical review / Kazue Kobayashi

9. Body, voice and gaze : text and illustration in the frame story of the Thousand and One Nights / Akiko Motoyoshi Sumi and Claus Cluver

10. image of Sheherazade in French and English editions of the Thousand and One Nights (eighteenth-nineteenth centuries) / Margaret Sironval.