East-West mimesis
Subtitle: Auerbach in Turkey
By: Kader Konuk.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780804769747
Subjects: Auerbach, Erich, -- 1892-1957; Literary historians -- Turkey -- Istanbul; Philologists -- Turkey -- Istanbul; Jewish refugees -- Turkey -- Istanbul; Humanism -- Turkey -- History -- 20th century; Turkey -- Intellectual life -- 20th century; Europe -- Intellectual life -- Turkish influences; Turkey -- Civilization -- Western influences
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : East-West mimesis; title: Turkish humanism; title: Humanism goes east; title: Mimicry in modern Turkey : the place of German and Turkish Jews; title: Germany on the Bosporus : Nazi conspiracies and émigré politics; title: Writing Mimesis in Istanbul; title: Epilogue : Turkey's humanist legacy.