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Grammatology and literary modernity in Turkey / Nergis Erturk.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ertürk, Nergis.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Turkish literature--20th century--History and criticism.
- Turkish literature.
- Turkish literature--19th century--History and criticism.
- Modernism (Literature)--Turkey.
- Modernism (Literature).
- Language and culture--Turkey--History.
- Language and culture.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 v.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The 1928 Turkish alphabet reform replacing the Perso-Arabic script with the Latin phonetic alphabet is an emblem of Turkish modernization. This work traces the history of Turkish alphabet and language reform from the mid-19th to the mid-20th century examining its effects on modern Turkish literature.
- Contents:
- A note on translation, transliteration, and usage
- Preface: nationalism, comparatism, and the colonization of the outside
- Introduction: Be or die: the stakes of phonocentrism
- Words set free
- The grammatology of nationalism
- The time regulation institute: dwelling in a mechanized language
- Safa's translation and its remainders
- Nazim's ghostwriting
- Conclusion. on the literary common.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-991877-5
- 1-283-42366-9
- 9786613423665
- 0-19-990911-3
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