Reading Notes: Voyages of Sinbad B

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The second half of the Sinbad adaptation was pretty consistent with the first. There were a lot of exhausted themes, but I noticed a much bigger element of object involvement. That is, for some reason, the second half seemed to include a significantly higher amount of object descriptions and plot involvement than in the first half. I remember that in the first half, for instance, during the entire first and second voyage, Sinbad merely is described as having "merchandise." In the second part, the narration describes objects much more deeply. In fact, the second half seemed to involve a much higher level of descriptions in general. This included depictions of the characters and locations as well. What I took away from the reading is that you can vary the number of involved devices from story to story. In one narrative, you do not need to stick to a certain level of narrative versus descriptions. As the story develops, so too can the ratio of textual devices.


(Sinbad's Carpet. From Wikipedia's page for One Thousand and One Nights)






From The Arabian Nights' Entertainments by Andrew Lang, illustrated by H.J. Ford (1898). Link. 

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