Motivated Fictionality: Worldbuilding and The Thousand and One Nights

Told and retold in countless iterations, and with roots in Persian, South Asian, and even Chinese folklore, The Thousand and One Nights has, for centuries, been amended and appended by the imaginaries of all those who have deigned to share and shape its stories. Communicated first orally, and then t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Soltan, Meriam
Other Authors: Rabbat, Nasser
Format: Thesis
Published: Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2022
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/144484