A discussion of the Arabian Nights

A discussion of the Arabian Nights

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A discussion of the Arabian Nights, as translated by Richard Burton in an unexpurgated version

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Arabian Nights Discussion

Literature often gives information about a culture through its presentation of characters and events and the context in which the stories are told. In particular, the author’s culture is often manifested in the articulation of concepts, and ways through which he or she presents the story under different circumstances. Consequently, textual analysis is one of the methods used in linguistics as a method of analyzing a particular community. As the community evolves, their diction matches the level of development, and so does the approach to storytelling. For instance, stories in the contemporary society are highly likely to include vast references to social media, which would otherwise be unavailable in stories written from the nineteenth and previous centuries. Consequently, a close analysis of a particular text, 

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