TY  - BOOK
AU  - Khayyat,E.
TI  - Istanbul 1940 and global modernity: the world according to Auerbach, Tanpinar, and Edib 
SN  - 149858585X
AV  - PN56.R3 A835 2020
U1  - 801.950922 23
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Lanham, Maryland
PB  - Lexington Books
KW  - Auerbach, Erich,
KW  - Tanpınar, Ahmet Hamdi
KW  - Adıvar, Halide Edib,
KW  - Critics
KW  - Turkey
KW  - Istanbul
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Literary historians
KW  - Reality in literature
KW  - Mimesis in literature
KW  - Critiques
KW  - Turquie
KW  - Histoire
KW  - 20e siecle
KW  - fast
KW  - Istanbul (Turkey)
KW  - 1930-1940
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction: Comparativism, analogy, and world literature -- Part I: How to turn Turk. Auerbach's orients -- The modern malaise and the figure -- Part II: The boat. Islamicate pasts -- European Turkey and literary modernity -- Part III: A wandering Jewess. Edib's spirit -- Turkey, India and the world -- -- Conclusion -- Afterword: The newcomer
N2  - "Istanbul 1940 and Global Modernity: The World According to Auerbach, Tanpınar, and Edib engages Erich Auerbach's Istanbul career and his pioneering works of comparative literature in a new light. It interprets Auerbach's works against the background of his Turkish colleagues' analogous works that, like Auerbach's masterpieces, were drafted at Istanbul University in the 1940s. Unlike Auerbach's writings, which center around Western literary cultures and Christianity, these Turkish writings trace non-Western, largely Islamicate cultural histories. The critic, novelist, and poet Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar (1901-1962) and his illustrious senior, the Muslim feminist, humanist, and novelist Halide Edib (1884-1964) focused on Middle Eastern and South Asian cultural trajectories. In addition to offering groundbreaking insights into their respective cultural legacies, Auerbach, Tanpınar, and Edib elaborated extensively on the intercrossing that is their meeting place, the chiasmic space of modern literature. Interpreting their writings as the work of a collective, Istanbul 1940 and Global Modernity examines the new paths these critics opened for theorizing literary modernity, world literature, and the comparative study of literature and religion."-- Back cover
ER  -