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Rapture and revolution : essays on Turkish literature / by Talat S. Halman ; edited by Jayne L. Warner.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press : Crescent Hill Publications, 2007.Description: xiv, 403 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780815631460 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • 0815631464 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PL205 .H35 2007
Contents:
Myths and monoliths -- The ancient and Ottoman legacy -- Islamic themes in Turkish poetry : imitations and mutations -- Rapture and revolution : poetry of the Islamic Near East -- Near Eastern literatures : a generation of renewal -- Death and rebirth of myths in Near Eastern literatures -- Turkish literature in the 1960s -- Turkish literature : modes of modernity -- Critics, dramatics, poetics -- The evolution of Turkish drama -- Comic spirit in the Turkish theater -- Poetry and society : propaganda functions of poetry in the Turkish experience -- Big town blues : peasants "abroad" in Turkish literature -- The heart of the Turkish tale : fun and fantasy for all ages -- Turkish poetry -- Mystics and modern masters -- Passions of the mystic mind : Rumi's poetry and philosophy -- The Turk in Rumi / Rumi in Turkey -- Yunus Emre's humanism -- Yunus Emre : a triumph of humanism -- Süleyman the magnificent : poet -- Nazım Hikmet : lyricist as iconoclast -- "I am listening to Istanbul" : Orhan Veli Kanık -- "On the Nomad Sea" : Melih Cevdet Anday -- Voices of memory : Oktay Rifat -- Sait Faik : the fiction of a flâneur.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Myths and monoliths -- The ancient and Ottoman legacy -- Islamic themes in Turkish poetry : imitations and mutations -- Rapture and revolution : poetry of the Islamic Near East -- Near Eastern literatures : a generation of renewal -- Death and rebirth of myths in Near Eastern literatures -- Turkish literature in the 1960s -- Turkish literature : modes of modernity -- Critics, dramatics, poetics -- The evolution of Turkish drama -- Comic spirit in the Turkish theater -- Poetry and society : propaganda functions of poetry in the Turkish experience -- Big town blues : peasants "abroad" in Turkish literature -- The heart of the Turkish tale : fun and fantasy for all ages -- Turkish poetry -- Mystics and modern masters -- Passions of the mystic mind : Rumi's poetry and philosophy -- The Turk in Rumi / Rumi in Turkey -- Yunus Emre's humanism -- Yunus Emre : a triumph of humanism -- Süleyman the magnificent : poet -- Nazım Hikmet : lyricist as iconoclast -- "I am listening to Istanbul" : Orhan Veli Kanık -- "On the Nomad Sea" : Melih Cevdet Anday -- Voices of memory : Oktay Rifat -- Sait Faik : the fiction of a flâneur.