Name: Selected Studies on Genre in Middle Eastern Literatures
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Selected Studies on Genre in Middle Eastern Literatures

From Epics to Novels

Edited By: Hülya Çelik, Petr Kučera

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These 12 case studies by experts in Arabic, Persian, and Turkish literature offer new insights into the intellectual universe of the Middle East. Spanning genres from classical poetry and epics to travelogues and novels, this book creates a new comparative framework.

The examination of literary genres in the Middle East opens the possibility of gaining new insights into the intellectual universe of Middle Eastern societies, the…

The examination of literary genres in the Middle East opens the possibility of gaining new insights into the intellectual universe of Middle Eastern societies, the question of production of meaning, what “literature” meant in different historical periods, and the underlying epistemology of producing knowledge, and how this epistemology has changed over time.

This book comprises 12 case studies from the three major Middle Eastern languages – Arabic, Persian, and Turkish – written by experts in the field. It brings together a wide range of approaches – from the study of epics to an analysis of travelogues, and from classical poetry to novels. Instead of focusing on one period or juxtaposing the classical genres and the West-induced development of “modern genres,” the studies in their totality apply a broad diachronic and synchronic perspective, with the potential to create a comparative framework for the study of the sociocultural and narratological dimensions of genre in the Middle East.

Hülya Çelik received her PhD in Turcology from the University of Vienna. From 2008, she taught and researched Ottoman and Turkish literatures and manuscript cultures at the University of Vienna, before assuming a position as lecturer in Turkish and Ottoman at the University of Hamburg in 2017. She was also a researcher in two state-funded projects: Early Modern Ottoman Culture of Learning and The Oriental Outpost of the Republic of Letters. Sebastian Tengnagel (d. 1636), the Imperial Library in Vienna, and Knowledge about the Orient. She is currently a junior professor of Turcology at the Ruhr University, Bochum.

Petr Kučera received his PhD in the theory and history of Asian and African literatures from the Charles University, Prague, with a focus on Turkish literature. He has held fellowships at the Free University of Berlin, Ankara University, Bosphorus University (Istanbul), Princeton University, and SOAS (London), and has served as a junior professor at the University of Hamburg. He currently teaches Turkish Studies at Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz. His research relates to late Ottoman and modern Turkish literature, travel writing, and the social and intellectual history of Turkey in the 19th and early 20th centuries. He has translated 10 books by Orhan Pamuk and co-authored a book on late Ottoman travelogues.

Zoi Georgiadou, Stephan Guth, Christine Kämpfer, Petr Kučera, Georg Leube, Karim Samji, Jutta Wintermann, Edith Ambros, Ingeborg Baldauf, Björn Bentlage, Günil Özlem Ayaydın Cebe, Hülya Çelik