The Turkish Novel and the Quest for Rationality / Ayse Ozge Kocak Hemmat.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hemmat, Ayse Özge Koçak.

Series:

Textxet: Studies in Comparative Literature ; 91.

Textxet: Studies in Comparative Literature ; v. 91

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Turkish fiction.

Modernism (Literature).

Rationalism in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (202 pages).

Place of Publication:

Leiden, Boston : 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:

Introduction / Ayşe Özge Koçak Hemmat

The Rationality of Turkish Modernity / Ayşe Özge Koçak Hemmat

Reason Demands Rational Novels / Ayşe Özge Koçak Hemmat

Araba Sevdası-a Novel of Bad Education and Civilized Monsters / Ayşe Özge Koçak Hemmat

Yaban: Inventing the Adversary in Irrational Provinces / Ayşe Özge Koçak Hemmat

The Past as an Object: Orientalist Fantasies of Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar / Ayşe Özge Koçak Hemmat

Reason’s Quarrel with Totalizing Rationality in Oğuz Atay / Ayşe Özge Koçak Hemmat

Epilogue / Ayşe Özge Koçak Hemmat.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

90-04-36604-0

OCLC:

1057679991

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004366046 DOI