Orhan Pamuk : critical essays on a novelist between worlds / Taner Can, Berkan Ulu, Koray Melikoglu (eds.).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Can, Taner, editor.

Ulu, Berkan, editor.

Melikoğlu, Koray, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pamuk, Orhan, 1952---Criticism and interpretation.

Pamuk, Orhan.

Transnationalism.

Identity (Psychology).

Culture--Psychological aspects.

Culture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (252 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Stuttgart, Germany : Ibidem-Verlag, 2017.

Summary:

"This collection of essays brings together scholarly examinations of a writer who - despite the prestige that the Nobel Prize has earned him - remains controversial with respect to his place in the literary tradition of his home country. This is in part because the positioning of Turkey itself in relation to the cultural divide between East and West has been the subject of a debate going back to the beginnings of the modern Turkish state and earlier. The present essays, written mostly by literary scholars, range widely across Pamuk's novelistic oeuvre, dealing with how the writer, often adding an allegorical level to the personages depicted in his experimental narratives, portrays tensions such as those between Western secularism and traditional Islam and different conceptions of national identity." -- Back cover.

Contents:

The Arriviste or görmemişin romanı: Pamuk and Tanpınar on New Turkish literature / E. Khayyat

Dependable content for political junctures: Orhan Pamuk and the Turkish media / Adam McConnel

Voices of dissent: belonging and identity in Silent House and A Strangeness in My Mind / Hande Gürses

Pamuk, the storyteller: elements of The Thousand and One Nights in The Black Book / Sevinç Türkkan

Provincialism in Orhan Pamuk's Snow and Turkey's controversial political history / Zafer Doğan

The hidden symmetry in life-writing: Pamuk's Istanbul: Memories and the City / İnci Sarız-Bilge

Provinciality and the City in Pamuk's Istanbul / Beyza Lorenz

Bridging the gap between people and things: the politics and poetics of collecting in Pamuk's The Museum of Innocence / Hülya Yağcıoğlu

The quest for home and identity: modernity and innocence in Pamuk's The Museum of Innocence / Gönül Eda Özgül

A novel like a well: a Girardian reading of Pamuk's The Red-Haired Woman / Elif Türker Gümüş.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (EBC, viewed April 14, 2018).

ISBN:

3-8382-7007-X