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The Ottoman Canon and the Construction of Arabic and Turkish Literatures
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- Book Synopsis
- The Ottoman Canon and the Construction of Arabic and Turkish Literatures fleshes out the Ottoman canon's multilingual character to call for a literary history that can reassess and even move beyond categories that many critics take for granted, such as 'classical Arabic literature' and 'Ottoman literature'. It gives a historically contextualised close reading of works from authors who have been studied as pionneers of Arabic and Turkish literatures, such as Ziya Pasha, Jurji Zaydan, Ma?ruf al-Rusafi and Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar.The book analyses how these authors prepared the arguments and concepts that shape how we study Arabic and Turkish literatures today as they reassessed the relationship among the Ottoman canon's linguistic traditions. Furthermore, it examines the Ottoman reception of pre-Ottoman poets, such as Ka?b ibn Zuhayr, hence opening up new research avenues for Arabic literature, Ottoman studies and comparative literature.
- About The Author
- C. Ceyhun Arslan is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at Koç University. His articles and book chapters have appeared in journals and edited volumes such as Journal of Mediterranean Studies, Journal of Arabic Literature, Comparative Literature Studies, Middle Eastern Literatures, The Routledge Handbook of Arabic Poetry and Sea of Literatures: Towards a Theory of Mediterranean Literature. He has been recently awarded a Georg Forster Fellowship for Experienced Researchers from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.
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- ISBN
- 9781399525831
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press, (31 December 2025)
- Number of Pages
- 248
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 234 x 156 mm
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