Istanbul 1940 and Global Modernity - The World According to Auerbach, Tanpinar, and Edib

This book revisits Erich Auerbach's Istanbul writings as pioneering works of contemporary literary history and cultural criticism. It interprets these writings, which center around Western literary cultures, against the background of Auerbach's Turkish colleagues' works that trace Middle Eastern and South Asian cultural histories.

List of contents

Introduction: Comparativism, Analogy, and World Literature

Part One: How to Turn Turk

Introduction

Chapter One: Auerbach's Orients

Chapter Two: The Modern Malaise and the Figure

Conclusion

Part Two: The Boat

Introduction

Chapter Three: Islamicate Pasts

Chapter Four: European Turkey and Literary Modernity

Conclusion

Part Three: A Wandering Jewess

Introduction

Chapter Five: Edib's Spirit

Chapter Six: Turkey, India and the World

Conclusion

Afterword: The Newcomer

Bibliography

About the Author

About the author

E. Khayyat is assistant professor of comparative literature and Middle Eastern languages and literatures at Rutgers University.

Product details

• Authors: E. Khayyat
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9781498585835
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-8583-5
• No. of pages: 296
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; RELIGION / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Middle Eastern, Middle East, Religion & beliefs, Literature: history & criticism, Literary studies: general, Religion and beliefs, Literature: history and criticism