The Ottoman Canon And The Construct

Edinburgh University Press

The Ottoman Canon and the Construction of Arabic and Turkish LiteraturesAuthor(s): C. Ceyhun Arslan\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Edinburgh University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Edinburgh University Press\nISBN-13: 9781399525831, 978-1399525831\nSynopsis\nThe Ottoman Canon and the Construction of Arabic and Turkish Literatures fleshes out the Ottoman canons multilingual character to call for a literary history that can reassess and even move beyond categories that many critics take for granted, such as classical Arabic literature and Ottoman literature. It gives a historically contextualised close reading of works from authors who have been studied as pionneers of Arabic and Turkish literatures, such as Ziya Pasha, Jurj? Zayd?n, Ma?r?f al-Ru??f? and Ahmet Hamdi Tanp?nar.\nThe book analyses how these authors prepared the arguments and concepts that shape how we study Arabic and Turkish literatures today as they reassessed the relationship among the Ottoman canons linguistic trad.