Rapture and revolution : essays on Turkish literature / by Talat S. Halman ; edited by Jayne L. Warner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Halman, Talât Sait.

Contributor:

Warner, Jayne L.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Turkish literature--History and criticism.

Turkish literature.

Physical Description:

xiv, 403 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press : Crescent Hill Publications, 2007.

Contents:

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

Süleyman the magnificent : poet

Nazım Hikmet : lyricist as iconoclast

"I am listening to Istanbul" : Orhan Veli Kanık

"On the Nomad Sea" : Melih Cevdet Anday

Voices of memory : Oktay Rifat

Sait Faik : the fiction of a flâneur.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780815631460

0815631464

OCLC:

155715178