Rapture and revolution : essays on Turkish literature /

Main Author: Halman, Talat Sait
Corporate Authors: Syracuse University Press, Crescent Hill
Other Authors: Warner, Jayne L.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press ;: Crescent Hill Publications, 2007
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Table of Contents:
  • Myths and monoliths
  • The ancient and Ottoman legacy
  • Islamic themes in Turkish poetry : imitations and mutations
  • Rapture and revolution : poetry of the Islamic Near East
  • Near Eastern literatures : a generation of renewal
  • Death and rebirth of myths in Near Eastern literatures
  • Turkish literature in the 1960s
  • Turkish literature : modes of modernity
  • Critics, dramatics, poetics
  • The evolution of Turkish drama
  • Comic spirit in the Turkish theater
  • Poetry and society : propaganda functions of poetry in the Turkish experience
  • Big town blues : peasants "abroad" in Turkish literature
  • The heart of the Turkish tale : fun and fantasy for all ages
  • Turkish poetry
  • Mystics and modern masters
  • Passions of the mystic mind : Rumi's poetry and philosophy
  • The Turk in Rumi / Rumi in Turkey
  • Yunus Emre's humanism
  • Yunus Emre : a triumph of humanism
  • Suleyman the magnificent : poet
  • Nazim Hikmet : lyricist as iconoclast
  • "I am listening to Istanbul" : Orhan Veli Kanik
  • "On the Nomad Sea" : Melih Cevdet Anday
  • Voices of memory : Oktay Rifat
  • Sait Faik : the fiction of a flaneur