The Thousand And One Sparknotes

The Thousand and One Analysis
The first volume of the ninth edition of The Norton Anthology of Western Literature was created to "provide a generous collection of the Western literary tradition in a format that will suit the needs of instructors and students encountering it for the first time." Included are classical pieces, such as the Iliad and Odyssey; the work of Christian and other religious sects, like The Divine Comedy and Paradise Lost; and basic Western literature that has had a global impact, such as The Thousand and One Nights. This story, alone, is more than just Western literature, more than what the title even entails; it is world literature, a combination of Asian and Middle Eastern literature fused with Western lit and a story
However, we cannot pinpoint a specific time frame for the entire story to analyze the upkeeps of society during the time it was written because additional tales and versions of this story are still being written today. Despite this, researchers have found that the tales themselves incorporate several fashions from the wealthy families and oral literary customs of the entire Middle Eastern region— specifically Baghdad and its ninth-century ruler, Harun al-Rashid, and his vizier Ja'far al-Barmaki. Other stories, that were created during a separate time portray the lifestyle of medieval Cairo and the culture of Bedouin of the Arabian Peninsula, which combines magic and mystery with truth and history. The tales of this story were each authored by someone different and by different generations, as well, which entails the different cultural traditions that are engraved within them. The Thousand and One Nights has travel through time, encountering everything the Middle East had come in contact throughout the centuries—trade, travel, war, and invasions—giving the tales contents of Persian, Indian, Greek, Turkish, and Central Asian cultures, too (“A Thousand and One Nights: Arabian Storytelling in World