ENG150Y1 Chapter Notes - Chapter all: Scheherazade, Dervish, Metanarrative
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The west : historically inaccurate: eastern church (byzantium) and western church (rome) clearly relational, when european expansion and colonialism take off in the renaissance (early modern period), the new world is identified as the west, e. g. the west. Indies can refer to both of the americas as well as to the caribbean islands. Into the 20th century, the western hemisphere was comprised only of the. Americas: only in early 20th century, through military alliances, did u. s. , canada and. Ironies created by frame: story-telling undertaken to distract caliph from his desire to protect himself from further betrayal by killing his new wife ends up creating a desire for narrative and, eventually, trust in shahrazad. Shahrazad keeps him awake through the night with bed-time stories. Result: intimate bond that is not exclusively sexual. Ironies in the tale the tailor tells the king of china that the barber tells of his six brothers.
