The Sleep of the Sultan. Rewriting of the <i>Mille et une nuits</i> in eighteenth-century <i>contes exotiques</i>

This paper analyses the influence of Galland's Les Mille et une nuits on two Eighteenth Century French tales: Crébillon's Le Sopha and Diderot's L'Oiseau blanc, conte bleu. The focus is the use of Galland's narrative structure by French conte philosophique. Particularly, Cré...

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Main Author: Bianca Gai
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Università degli Studi di Cagliari 2011-11-01
Series:Between
Online Access:http://ojs.unica.it/index.php/between/article/view/286