Rapture and Revolution Essays on Turkish Literature

Name: Rapture and Revolution Essays on Turkish Literature
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ISBN: 9780815631460

ISBN-10: 0815631464

ISBN-13: 9780815631460

Edition: 2007

Authors: Talat S. Halman, Jayne Warner

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The articles contained in this volume collectively provide a critical overview of Turkish literature from its earliest phases in the sixth century through the Republican period, with pieces detailing literature from the Ottoman Empire to essays dealing with Turkish Literature and Europeanization. In so doing, the author illustrates the evolution of Turkish culture as reflected in the literary experience. development of drama from Karagoz and Orta oyunu to contemporary Western theater, the propaganda functions of poetry, and the important role of folk literature. In addition, the volume focuses on some of the leading figures of Turkish literature, from Mevlana Celaleddin Rumi, Yunus Emre,…

Book details

List price: $59.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Publication date: 10/30/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 418
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.804
Language: English



An Editor's Overview



A Pioneer's Notes



Note on Turkish Spelling and Names . Organizational Note



Myths and Monoliths


The Ancient and Ottoman Legacy


Islamic Themes in Turkish Poetry: Imitations and Mutations


Rapture and Revolution: Poetry of the Islamic Near East


Near Eastern Literatures: A Generation of Renewal


Death and Rebirth of Myths in Near Eastern Literatures


Turkish Literature in the 1960s


Turkish Literature: Modes of Modernity



Critics, Dramatics, Poetics


The Evolution of Turkish Drama


Comic Spirit in the Turkish Theater


Poetry and Society: Propaganda Functions of Poetry in the Turkish Experience


Big Town Blues: Peasants "Abroad" in Turkish Literature


The Heart of the Turkish Tale: Fun and Fantasy for All Ages


Turkish Poetry



Mystics and Modern Masters


Passions of the Mystic Mind: Rumi's Poetry and Philosophy


The Turk in Rumi / Rumi in Turkey


Yunus Emre's Humanism


Yunus Emre: A Triumph of Humanism


Suleyman the Magnificent: Poet


Nazim Hikmet: Lyricist As Iconoclast


"I Am Listening to Istanbul": Orhan Veli Kanik


"On the Nomad Sea": Melih Cevdet Anday


Voices of Memory: Oktay Rifat


Sait Faik: The Fiction of a Flaneur


Index


Biographical Notes


Acknowledgments