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Both in the sheer breadth and in the detail of their coverage the essays in these two volumes challenge hegemonic thinking on the subject of translation. Engaging throughout with issues of representation in a postmodern and postcolonial world, Translating Others investigates the complex processes of projection, recognition, displacement and 'othering' effected not only by translation practices but also by translation studies as developed in the West. At the same time, the volumes document the increasing awareness the the world is peopled by others who also translate, often in ways radically different from and hitherto largely ignored by the modes of translating conceptualized in Western disc...
Print culture, in both its material and cognitive aspects, has been a somewhat neglected field of Middle Eastern intellectual and social history. The essays in this volume aim to make significant contributions to remedying this neglect, by advancing our knowledge and understanding of how and why the development of printing both affected, and was affected by, historical, social and intellectual currents in the areas considered. These range geographically from Iran to Latin America, via Kurdistan, Turkey, Egypt, the Maghrib and Germany, temporally from the 10th to the 20th centuries CE, and linguistically through Arabic, Judæo-Arabic, Syriac, Ottoman Turkish, Kurdish and Persian.
Transnational Identity Politics and the Environment attempts to transcend current social science paradigms for interpreting the relations between globalization and environmental activism, and to develop an alternative perspective that recognizes the effects of economic globalization, accelerating migration, and the retreat of the state on environmental social movements and politics. The book is a study in global sociology, and makes use of both quantitative analysis and qualitative case studies. By addressing cutting-edge theories of globalization from several disciplines, using multiple methods and multiple sources of data, and illustrating its major arguments with case studies of Turkey an...
The most important poetry reference for more than four decades—now fully updated for the twenty-first century Through three editions over more than four decades, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics has built an unrivaled reputation as the most comprehensive and authoritative reference for students, scholars, and poets on all aspects of its subject: history, movements, genres, prosody, rhetorical devices, critical terms, and more. Now this landmark work has been thoroughly revised and updated for the twenty-first century. Compiled by an entirely new team of editors, the fourth edition—the first new edition in almost twenty years—reflects recent changes in literary and cultu...
Tanzimat Dönemi Türk Edebiyatı, 1859-1878 yılları arasındaki Türk edebiyatının genel adıdır. Bu dönem, İslam öncesi Türk edebiyatı ve İslâm medeniyeti etkisinde gelişen Türk edebiyatı denilen iki ana devreden sonra Batı medeniyeti etkisinde gelişen üçüncü ana devresini teşkil eder. Bu eserde Tanzimat Dönemi'nde ortaya konan Türk edebiyatı faaliyetleri bir bütünlük içerisinde verilmiştir. Özellikle hem Batı’dan yeni gelen türler, konular ve şekil özellikleri hem de var olan türler üzerinde yapılan değişiklikler ve yenilikler üzerinde durulmuştur. Türk edebiyatı üzerindeki Batı edebiyatının, felsefesinin ve kültürünün etkileri incelenip Türk edebiyatının değişim ve gelişim çizgisi irdelenmiştir. Eser, özellikle üniversitelerin Türk Dili ve Edebiyatı Bölümleri, sosyal bilimler alanında çalışma yapanlar ve konunun meraklılarının ihtiyaçlarına cevap vermek üzere tasarlanmış ve hazırlanmıştır.
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