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Mia Irene Gerhardt

ميا إيرينه خيرهاردت

Notable figure 1918–1988 · Source: Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin (Beirut: Dar al-Kutub al-ʿIlmiyya, 2004), p. 405 · Second source: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, GND authority record: Gerhardt, Mia Irene (1918-1988), literary scholar, Netherlands

Field: Literature

Affiliation

Author of The Art of Story-Telling, on the Nights (1963)

Biography

A Dutch literary scholar, she wrote on the narrative technique of the frame story of the Thousand and One Nights (Arabica, 1961), and then The Art of Story-Telling: A Literary Study of the Thousand and One Nights (Leiden, 1963), some five hundred pages that read the Nights as literature, through their structure and the kinds of tale they hold.