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Zusatztext A seminal and original work of meticulous scholarship! expertly organized and presented! and enhanced for academia ? Animals and the Environment in Turkish Culture: Ecocriticism and Transnational Literature is an extraordinary and unreservedly recommended addition to college and university library collections. Informationen zum Autor Kim Fortuny is Associate Professor of English at Bogaziçi University in Istanbul, Turkey.A comparative study of ecocritical themes within Turkish literature Zusammenfassung Landscape and animals have been fundamental elements of Turkish culture from the Ottomans to the present day. This book examines representations of and attitudes toward land and animals in selected Turkish literary texts and cultural contexts. Informed by global debates in ecocriticism! ecopoetics and animal studies! Kim Fortuny explores literary and arts activism! as well as environmental interventions in the Turkish cultural sphere in light of ongoing ecological degradation in Turkey. Writers from the Turkish canon such as Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar and Nâzim Hikmet are explored alongside American and English texts to reveal common transnational environmental and ecological concerns across these distinct literary cultures. Analysing works of Turkish literature within the emerging field of ecocriticism! this interdisciplinary work will be of interest to scholars of Turkish and comparative literature and animal studies and ecocriticism across the humanities. Inhaltsverzeichnis ForewordAcknowledgements Introduction Land: Chapter OneHerman Melville's Near East Journal and Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar's Five Cities:Affinities of Culture, Nature, and Islamic Mysticism in Istanbul Chapter Two Nature’s Place in Political Romanticism: Selected Poems by Nâzim Hikmet Chapter ThreeResourcing Nature: Land Ethics, Poetics and “Things I Didn’t Know I Loved” by Nâzim Hikmet Animals: Chapter Four Islam, Westernization and Post-Humanist Place: The Case of the Istanbul Street Dog Chapter Five Ecopoetics, Dead Metaphors and Bird Migration: The Bosphorus Passage of the European White Stork Chapter SixThe Benefits of Doubt: A Sea Turtle and the Ecological Sublime Conclusion Index...
