Module 14 - Part 3: Texts and Contexts

Other parts of this module include:
Index  |  Part 1: Overview  |  Part 2: Explorations and Exercises  |  Part 4: Web Resources

The Sharing of Narrative Materials in the Middle Ages

An English translation of the text of Barlaam and Josephat, published by Harvard University Press in 1914.
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Ten versions of an animal fable that seems to originate in the Jataka tales. This type of story has been catalogued as Aarne-Thomspson type 1586, and made available on a Web site maintained by D. L. Ashliman.
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The ninth story of the second day from the Decameron, in a translation by J. M. Rigg (1903), from Brown University’s Web site on the Decameron. 
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From a site containing the text of Sir Richard Burton’s translation of A Thousand andOne Nights, “The Merchant and Two Sharpers.”
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A contemporary story by Intizar Husain, “The Death of Shahrazad,” translated by Rakshsanda Jalil, available online in The Annual of Urdu Studies.
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