Animals and the environment in Turkish culture : ecocriticism and transnational literature /

"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, ecopoe...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Fortuny, Kim (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London : I.B. Tauris, 2019.
Subjects:
Animals and civilization > Turkey.
Animals in literature.
Turkish literature > History and criticism.
Animaux dans la littérature.
Littérature turque > Histoire et critique.
Animals and civilization.
Turkish literature.
Turkey.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

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