The Turkish novel and the quest for rationality / by Ayşe Özge Koçak Hemmat.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hemmat, Ayse Özge Koçak, author.

Series:

Text (Rodopi (Firm)) ; 91.

Textxet: Studies in Comparative Literature, 0927-5754 ; volume 91

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Turkish fiction--History and criticism.

Turkish fiction.

Turkish fiction--19th century--History and criticism.

Turkish fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

Rationalism in literature.

Modernism (Literature)--Turkey.

Modernism (Literature).

Turkey.

Physical Description:

xi, 190 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden : Brill/Rodopi, [2019]

Summary:

The Turkish Novel and the Quest for Rationality' is the first book to contextualize the Turkish novel with regard to the intellectual developments motivating the Turkish modernization project since the 18th century. The book provides a dialectical narrative for the emergence and development of the Turkish novel in order to highlight the genre's critical role within the modernization project. In doing so, it also delineates the changing forms the novel assumes in the Turkish context from a platform for new literature to a manifestation of crisis in the face of totalizing rationality. Vis-a-vis modernization's engagement with rationality, 'The Turkish Novel and the Quest for Rationality' reveals unexplored ways of conceptualizing the development of the genre in non-western contexts.

Contents:

1 The Rationality of Turkish Modernity p. 7

1 Appropriating Rationality p. 9

2 Military Reforms and Intellectual Concerns p. 15

3 Srientistie Rationality p. 28

4 Rational Nationhood p. 34

2 Reason Demands Rational Novels p. 45

Discourse on the Novel p. 48

3 Araba Sevdasi-a Novel of Bad Education and Civilized Monsters p. 59

1 Books and Follies: Bihruz Bey's Misadventures in Reading p. 65

2 Between Divertissement and Travail-or, How to Approach the Novel p. 78

3 Çamlica Garden: Irrational Uses of Rational Spaces p. 81

4 Yaban: inventing the Adversary in Irrational Provinces p. 87

1 Confronting the Peasant: Noble Savage or Beast? p. 87

2 Parade of Beasts against the Humanist p. 94

3 Object of an Idea, or the Truth of the Peasant p. 98

5 The Past as an Object: Orientalist Fantasies of Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar p. 105

1 Objectifying the Past: Orientalist Aestheticization of Culture p. 108

2 Continuing a Tradition and Confining the Past p. 115

3 Whereto Find Peace of Mind: Huzur as a Novel of Ottoman Fantasies p. 118

3.1 Between Nuran and Ihsan-Sacred Light and Secular Beneficence p. 120

3.2 Not an Odalisque from a Matisse Painting p. 125

4 Eliminating the Past and Resetting the Clocks in Saatleri Ayarlama Enstitüsü p. 131

6 Reason's Quarrel with Totalizing Rationality in Oguz Atay p. 145

1 Reason versus Totalizing Rationality p. 148

2 Butchering and Philosophy: How Rationality Mutilates Reason p. 156

3 Pure Reason's Union with Naive Reason p. 165.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-186) and index.

Other Format:

Electronic version: Hemmat, Ayse Özge Koçak. Turkish novel and the quest for rationality.

ISBN:

9789004366039

9004366032

OCLC:

1057679991