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

By E. Khayyat

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