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Author Ertürk, Nergis

Title Grammatology and literary modernity in Turkey / Nergis Ertürk
Published New York : Oxford University Press, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 216 pages)
Contents A note on translation, transliteration, and usage -- Preface: nationalism, comparatism, and the colonization of the outside -- Introduction: Be or die: the stakes of phonocentrism -- Words set free -- The grammatology of nationalism -- The time regulation institute: dwelling in a mechanized language -- Safa's translation and its remainders -- Nâzim's ghostwriting -- Conclusion. on the literary common
Summary The 1928 Turkish alphabet reform replacing the Perso-Arabic script with the Latin phonetic alphabet is an emblem of Turkish modernization. This work traces the history of Turkish alphabet and language reform from the mid-19th to the mid-20th century examining its effects on modern Turkish literature
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Turkish literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
Turkish literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
Modernism (Literature) -- Turkey
Language and culture -- Turkey -- History
LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
Language and culture.
Modernism (Literature)
Turkish literature.
Turkey.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Form Electronic book
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