Intersections in Turkish literature

About this book

"The rich but often neglected field of Turkish and Ottoman literature has long suffered from the fact that a number of traditional research boundaries have separated the studies of folk and elite literature, Ottoman and modern literature, village and city, religious and secular.". "Intersections in Turkish Literature assembles the writings of a number of scholars who bridge the traditional chasms, inviting us to rethink our approaches to the study of Turkish and Ottoman literature. The selected chapters form a nucleus that clearly demonstrates the greater potential now existing for studies in these areas. These essays display a variety of different and unusual approaches that bring together seemingly disparate materials: the Turkish story "The Pomegranate Seed" and Disney's "Snow White"; a fifteenth-century chronicle and the poetry of a modern socialist poet; Albanian dervishes in Detroit; a modern Turkish novel; Virginia Woolf; a Yale critic; traditional Japanese poetry; and Ottoman lyrics.". "The essays collected here will provide an important stimulus to work that reaches beyond the limits of area studies and intersects with the interests of scholars and students of literary theory, folklore studies, anthropology, French, Japanese, and Persian."--BOOK JACKET.