Rapture and revolution
Subtitle: essays on Turkish literature
By: by Talat S. Halman ; edited by Jayne L. Warner.
Contributors: Warner, Jayne L.
Publisher: Syracuse University Press; Crescent Hill Publications
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Syracuse, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 403
ISBN-13: 9780815631460
Subjects: Turkish literature -- History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Myths and monoliths; title: The ancient and Ottoman legacy; title: Islamic themes in Turkish poetry : imitations and mutations; title: Rapture and revolution : poetry of the Islamic Near East; title: Near Eastern literatures : a generation of renewal; title: Death and rebirth of myths in Near Eastern literatures; title: Turkish literature in the 1960s; title: Turkish literature : modes of modernity; title: Critics, dramatics, poetics; title: The evolution of Turkish drama; title: Comic spirit in the Turkish theater; title: Poetry and society : propaganda functions of poetry in the Turkish experience; title: Big town blues : peasants "abroad" in Turkish literature; title: The heart of the Turkish tale : fun and fantasy for all ages; title: Turkish poetry; title: Mystics and modern masters; title: Passions of the mystic mind : Rumi's poetry and philosophy; title: The Turk in Rumi / Rumi in Turkey; title: Yunus Emre's humanism; title: Yunus Emre : a triumph of humanism; title: Süleyman the magnificent : poet; title: Nazım Hikmet : lyricist as iconoclast; title: "I am listening to Istanbul" : Orhan Veli Kanık; title: "On the Nomad Sea" : Melih Cevdet Anday; title: Voices of memory : Oktay Rifat; title: Sait Faik : the fiction of a flâneur.