Buch, Englisch, Band 2, 348 Seiten, GB, Format (B × H): 175 mm x 245 mm, Gewicht: 747 g
Reihe: Ottomania
Ottomans on the Danish Stage 1596–1896
Buch, Englisch, Band 2, 348 Seiten, GB, Format (B × H): 175 mm x 245 mm, Gewicht: 747 g
Reihe: Ottomania
ISBN: 978-3-99012-118-4
Verlag: Hollitzer
For centuries the figure of ‘the Turk’ spread fascination and fear – in the theatre of war and on the theatrical stage. On the one hand, ‘the Turk’ represented a spectacular dimension, an imaginary world of pirates, sultans and odalisques; on the other hand, he stood for the actual Ottoman Empire, engaged in long-lasting confrontations and exchanges with Occidental powers. When confronted with historical circumstances – military, commercial and religious – the cliché image of ‘the Turk’ dissolves in complex combinations of potential references. The Taming of the Turk: Ottomans on the Danish Stage 1596–1896 elucidates, for the first time, three centuries of cultural history as articulated in dealings between the Kingdom of Denmark and the Ottoman Empire seen in a general European context. From the staging of ‘the Turk’ as a diabolical player in royal ceremonies of early modern times, to the appearance of harmless ‘Turkish’ entertainment figures in the late nineteenth century. Artistic, theatrical and theological conceptions co-act in paradoxical ways against a backdrop of pragmatic connections with the Ottomans. The story of this long-forgotten connection between a small northern-European nation and a mighty Oriental empire is based on a source material – plays, paintings, treaties, travelogues etc. – that has hitherto chiefly been neglected, although it played a significant role in earlier times. The images of ‘exotic’ figures sometimes even turn out to be self-images. The documents hold the keys to a number of mental and fundamental (pre)conditions, and thus even to imagery constructions of our day.
Fachgebiete
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten
- Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Theatergeschichte
- Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Kultureller Wandel, Kulturkontakt, Akkulturation
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Contents
Introduction
Perceptions of ‘the Turk’ Them and Us The Graveyard of Culture – the Scrapheap of History The Kaleidoscope of History Identity and Staging Images and Voices
Chapter 1 Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries: Conspiracy and Apocalypse
War and Coronation The Turk and the Pope Heresy and Nonbelief The Tamed Turk Popular Belief and ‘the Enemy’
Chapter 2 The Eighteenth Century: Parody and Pedagogy
War and Masquerade Parody and Paranoia The Commercial Stage The Theatrical Stage The New Turk The Turk in Paris The Turk in Vienna The Turk in Copenhagen The Dane and the Turk The Christian Knight Nation at War The Swede and the Turk The Turk and the People The Real Seraglio Far from Farce?
Chapter 3 The Nineteenth Century: Carnival and Casino
Exotic Romanticism The Turk in the Cage Portrait of the Artist as Young Woman The Near East The Pope, the Turk and the German Far from Denmark? Harem and History
Afterword
Synthesis and Retraction Interplay and Openness Symbol and Stereotype Prophecy and Polyphony
Appendix
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