| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Land: -- Chapter One -- Herman Melville's Near East Journal and Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar's Five Cities:Affinities of Culture, Nature, and Islamic Mysticism in Istanbul -- Chapter Two -- Nature's Place in Political Romanticism: Selected Poems by Nâzim Hikmet -- Chapter Three -- Resourcing Nature: Land Ethics, Poetics and "Things I Didn't Know I Loved" by Nâzim Hikmet -- Animals: -- Chapter Four -- Islam, Westernization and Post-Humanist Place: The Case of the Istanbul Street Dog -- Chapter Five -- Ecopoetics, Dead Metaphors and Bird Migration: The Bosphorus Passage of the European White Stork -- Chapter Six -- The Benefits of Doubt: A Sea Turtle and the Ecological Sublime -- Conclusion -- Index |
| Summary |
"Landscape and animals have been fundamental elements of Turkish culture from the Ottomans to the present day. This book examines representations of and attitudes toward land and animals in selected Turkish literary texts and cultural contexts. Informed by global debates in ecocriticism, ecopoetics and animal studies, Kim Fortuny explores literary and arts activism, as well as environmental interventions in the Turkish cultural sphere in light of ongoing ecological degradation in Turkey. Writers from the Turkish canon such as Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar and Nâzim Hikmet are explored alongside American and English texts to reveal common transnational environmental and ecological concerns across these distinct literary cultures. Analysing works of Turkish literature within the emerging field of ecocriticism, this interdisciplinary work will be of interest to scholars of Turkish and comparative literature and animal studies and ecocriticism across the humanities."--Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed July 15, 2019) |
| Subject |
Animals and civilization -- Turkey
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Animals in literature.
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Turkish literature -- History and criticism
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Animals and civilization
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Animals in literature
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Turkish literature
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Turkey
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781786726575 |
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1786726572 |
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9781786736635 |
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1786736632 |
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9781788318198 |
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1788318196 |
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