Last of an Age - The Making and Unmaking of a Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Poet

List of contents

Introduction

1. Contexts: The Court and Beyond

1.1 The Court and Poetry

1.2 State, Society, and the Ottoman Way

1.3 The Social Spread of Poetry

1.4 The Matter of Poetic Training
2. A Poet in Istanbul

2.1 The New Cultural Capital

2.2 The Early Years

2.3 The Later Years

2.4 On Patronage
3. A Poet and His Work

3.1 The Remarkable Lyricist

3.2 Varieties of Convention, Questions of Audience

3.3 Of (Qualified) Praise
4. An Emerging Tradition

4.1 The Issue of Influence

4.2 Refashioning Familiar Poetry

4.3 Eastward Back

4.4 The Plain Turkish Movement Reconsidered
5 The Making of a Legacy

5.1 Mentor at Large

5.2 Zati and Baki

5.3 Linguistic Identity and Cultural Difference

5.4 A Poet Caught in Transition
Epilogue

About the author

Sooyong Kim is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English Language and Comparative Literature at Koç University, Istanbul.

Summary

Focusing on the work and reception of the Ottoman poet Zati (1477-1546) during his lifetime and in the decades after, this study explores a time when literature written in Turkish rapidly grew in parallel with an expanding bureaucratic state. It situates the changing reception of Zati within the context of a shift in critical attitudes toward the

Product details

• Authors: Sooyong Kim
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9780367879075
• ISBN: 978-0-367-87907-5
• No. of pages: 156
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Renaissance, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1400 to c 1600