Interviews on Great Writers

Oxford University

A series of interviews with academic experts on a number of great writers. Part of the Great Writers Inspire project.

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Interviews on Great Writers

Episodes (9)

Mar 26, 2013 Oriental Tales and Their Influence
Oct 8, 2012 Kipling, the Elton John of his age?
Oct 8, 2012 Postcolonial Women Writers

Interviews on Great Writers

Mar 26, 2013
27¼ minutes
25 MB

Prof. Warner and Prof. Ballaster begin their conversation with Antoine Galland's translation into French from Arabic of the 'Alf Layla wa-Layla' as the first two volumes of 'Les Mille et Une Nuit' in the first decade of eighteenth century. The twelve-volume text that became known in the English-speaking world as 'The Arabian Nights Entertainments' was woven together from manuscript and verbal sources as well as added to with apparently invented tales by Antoine Galland himself. Warner and Ballaster open their discussion by considering whether Galland's tales provide a better window on the French salon culture of the early eighteenth century...

Interviews on Great Writers

Oriental Tales and Their Influence

Oxford University

00:00 -27:23