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‘Bu yapıtta iki amaç güttüm. İlki, gerçeki bir roman gerçekçi bir öyküyü estetik konuma getiren öğeleri örneklerle göstermek. Ama şu bilinmeli. Gerçekçi öykü, gerçekçi roman yazmak için bunlar yeterli değildir.Yazarda gerçekliği derinden kavrama gücü, sağlıklı tür bilinci, bir de düş gücü olmalıdır. İkinci amaç okurlar için. Türkiye’de okur, bir romanı, bir öyküyü değerlendirecek ölçütlerden yoksundur. Dolaysız algılama, hoşlanma yetisi yeterlidir okur için. Oysa hoşlanma estetik bir değer değildir. Hoşlanan okurla, hoşlanılan romanlar, öyküler yazan yazar, bu okur-yazar ilişkisi Türkiye’de yazını estetik değerden düşürmüştür. Bu yapıt, Türkiye’de yazını estetik değerden düşüren okur-yazar ikilisine karşı estetik kalkışmadır.
This groundbreaking series of essays offers new insights into Turkish cultures both past and present. Moving beyond the traditional binaries of east/west, Islam/secularism, and Europe/Asia, the book contains a variety of perspectives on contemporary Turkey, from actors, directors, critics and other major cultural figures. The book tries to situate these opinions in context by looking at how such perspectives are employed in different cultural spheres—education, theatre, politics and the like. Exploring Turkish Cultures contains the first major interviews published in English with prominent public figures, including actors Türkân Şoray, Genco Erkal and Nesrin Kazankaya. Other figures int...
Time’s Fool: Essays in Context is a collection of essays on a broad range of topics, from Gilgamesh to James Joyce – and beyond: to Kazuo Ishiguro, Michael Ondaatje, Yaşar Kemal, Cormac McCarthy, Abdulrahman Munif, and many others. Time’s Fool is a memorial to the life work of A. Clare Brandabur, who walked away from a tenure-track teaching position at the University of Illinois to embark on a career of teaching in Middle Eastern universities in Jordan, Syria, Bahrain, occupied Palestine, Cyprus, Ankara, and finally Istanbul, where she taught for the last decade and a half of her life. Had Clare stayed with a career at a “Research I” university in the United States, her scholarshi...
LITERATURE A WORLD HISTORY An exploration of the history of the world’s literatures and the many varieties of literary expression Literature: A World Historyencompasses all the world’s major literary traditions, emphasizing the interrelationship of local and national cultures over time. Spanning global literature from the beginnings of recorded history to the present day, this expansive four-volume set examines the many varieties of the world’s literatures in their social and intellectual contexts. Its four volumes are devoted to literature before 200 CE, from 200 to 1500, from 1500 to 1800, and from 1800 to 2000, with four dozen contributors providing new insights into the art of lite...
Constantinople Through the Ages aims to map the long and rich history of Constantinople, from its foundations to the present. Starting point is the ‘visible city’; the ways in which continuity and change in history are still observable in present-day Istanbul. The contributors, each of them foremost experts in their fields, address the interaction between the different layers of time from various sources and perspectives. They explore how later inhabitants received and appropriated the legacy of their predecessors, and how the city’s tangible and intangible heritage has been perceived and (ab)used in both the past and the present.
If countercultural literature is meant to "counter" a culture, what happens when another culture borrows that critique? Translating the Counterculture addresses that question by examining the reception of the Beat Generation in Turkey. There, the Beat message of dissent is being given renewed life as publishers, editors, critics, readers, and others dissatisfied with the conservative social and political trends in the country have turned to the Beats and other countercultural forebears for alternatives. Through an examination of a broad range of literary translations, media portrayals, interviews, and other related materials, Translating the Counterculture seeks to uncover how the Beats and ...
From Orhon inscriptions to Orhan Pamuk, the story of Turkish literature from the eighth century A.D. to the present day is rich and complex, full of firm traditions and daring transformations. Spanning a wide geographic range from Outer Mongolia and the environs of China through the Middle East all the way to Europe, the history of Turkish literature embraces a multitude of traditions and influences. All have left their imprint on the distinctive amalgam that is uniquely Turkish. Always receptive to the nurturing values, aesthetic tastes, and literary penchants of diverse civilizations, Turkish culture succeeded in evolving a sui generis personality. It clung to its own established traits, y...
Here, Jayne L. Warner has created a unique biographical tapestry that illuminates not only the life of one of Turkey's leading literary and cultural authorities, but also the emergence of a republic in his native country, and sheds new light on the history of one of the world's great cities. Sumptuously illustrated throughout with evocative period pictures of Istanbul, Turkish Nomad tells the extraordinary life story of this poet, thinker, and diplomat. As a young boy, Halman surveyed the last vestiges of the Ottoman Empire, walked through the ruins of Byzantium, and grew up in the modern nation created by the charismatic Mustafa Kemal Ataturk. Talat S. Halman would go on to serve the republ...
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AZ GİTTİK, UZUN GİTTİK Profesyonel gazeteciliğe, Hürriyet ve Doğan Haber Ajansı ile Günaydın'da 41 yıl çalıştıktan sonra veda ettim. Deneyim ve yaşadıklarımla, mesleğin ustalarını konu alan ‘Bir Ömür Bin Haber’ kitabını yayımladım. Sıra geldi, yine gazetecilik döneminde tanıdıklarıma. Onların öykülerinden oluşan ilk bölümü yayına hazırladım. İşte değişik birkaç örnek: * Hayatının baharında kaybettiğimiz sanatçı İbrahim Erkal’ı, annesi, kardeşleri ve eşi nasıl anlattı? * Diyanet İşleri eski Başkanı Mehmet Nuri Yılmaz’ın ilk kez okuyacağınız ve gülümseten anıları. * Yine Mehmet Nuri Yılmaz’ın anlatımı ile Er...