CLT-3378 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Utnapishtim, Gylfaginning, Scheherazade
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300 stories in the thousand and one nights: arabic collection of stories, c. 1200-1300 ce **arabic in culture but empowered by islamic people. Work read: tale of buluqiya (one of the stories in the thousand and one nights) Language of work: arabic: tale of buluqiya. 632 ce = death of mohammed **the armies of islam spread their power and in 651 they assassin sassanid ruler. The thousand and one nights (taon: frame narrative. **separate the frame narrative from the tale of buluquia. Ii. in frame narrative, shahriar, the sultan **starts our as a good king until his wife commits adultery. He becomes enraged and has his wife killed. Iii. vizier"s (right hand man) daughter, scheherazade (or shahrazad) shes crazy and tells her that it"s a form of suicide: set in time of sassanians, begins/ends taon that"s why its called a frame narrative. It frames the work: generates all stories in taon, cf.
