The Turkish Novel and the Quest for Rationality

XII, 190pp. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-90-04-36603-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 91, 190 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 408 g

Reihe: Textxet: Studies in Comparative Literature

The Turkish Novel and the Quest for Rationality offers an alternative genealogy of the emergence and development of the Turkish novel by situating the genre in an intellectual framework motivated by conceptions of reason and rationality in the Turkish modernization project.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kocak Hemmat, Ayse Ozge

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Literatur des Nahen Ostens & Nordafrikas
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Prosaautoren
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
Prologue
Introduction
1 The Rationality of Turkish Modernity
1 Appropriating Rationality
2 Military Reforms and Intellectual Concerns
3 Scientistic Rationality
4 Rational Nationhood
2 Reason Demands Rational Novels
Discourse on the Novel
3 Araba Sevdasi—a Novel of Bad Education and Civilized Monsters
1 Books and Follies: Bihruz Bey’s Misadventures in Reading
2 Between Divertissement and Travail—or, How to Approach the Novel
3 Çamlica Garden: Irrational Uses of Rational Spaces
4 Yaban: Inventing the Adversary in Irrational Provinces
1 Confronting the Peasant: Noble Savage or Beast?
2 Parade of Beasts against the Humanist
3 Object of an Idea, or the Truth of the Peasant
5 The Past as an Object: Orientalist Fantasies of Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar
1 Objectifying the Past: Orientalist Aestheticization of Culture
2 Continuing a Tradition and Confining the Past
3 Where to Find Peace of Mind: Huzur as a Novel of Ottoman Fantasies
3.1 Between Nuran and Ihsan—Sacred Light and Secular Beneficence
3.2 Not an Odalisque from a Matisse Painting
4 Eliminating the Past and Resetting the Clocks in Saatleri Ayarlama Enstitüsü
6 Reason’s Quarrel with Totalizing Rationality in Oguz Atay
1 Reason versus Totalizing Rationality
2 Butchering and Philosophy: How Rationality Mutilates Reason
3 Pure Reason’s Union with Naïve Reason
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Ayse Özge Koçak Hemmat, Ph.D., Northwestern University, is an independent scholar and project manager. She has published in the journal of Middle Eastern Literatures, as well as contributing to the Dictionary of Literary Biography series.