The Ideal of the West, the Reality of the East. Towards a New Poetics of Ottoman Modernity in the Novels of "Edebiyat-ı Cedide"

The article deals with the late Ottoman literary movement of New Literature (Edebiyat-ı Cedide) and asks what new conceptions of East and West there emerged in the Ottoman-Turkish novel at the turn of the century. Based on that, it tries to outline the connections of the new poetics of the novel dev...

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Autor principal:	Petr Kučera
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Lenguaje:	CA EN ES
Publicado:	Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona 2017
Materias:	Ottoman-Turkish novels Servet-i Fünun Edebiyat-ı Cedide East and West Modern history, 1453- D204-475
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:db184be557b8457f8fb1350b6ec684e52021-11-26T10:25:58ZThe Ideal of the West, the Reality of the East. Towards a New Poetics of Ottoman Modernity in the Novels of "Edebiyat-ı Cedide"10.5565/rev/rubrica.1402014-5748https://doaj.org/article/db184be557b8457f8fb1350b6ec684e52017-12-01T00:00:00Zhttps://revistes.uab.cat/rubrica/article/view/140https://doaj.org/toc/2014-5748The article deals with the late Ottoman literary movement of New Literature (Edebiyat-ı Cedide) and asks what new conceptions of East and West there emerged in the Ottoman-Turkish novel at the turn of the century. Based on that, it tries to outline the connections of the new poetics of the novel developed by Edebiyat-ı Cedide to the Ottoman modernization process. The underlying argument of the paper is that West and East appear in these novels more as two states of mind than physical entities, as two poles of consciousness. The West becomes an elaborately crafted metaphoric space, serving as a backdrop onto which the authors, influenced by Romantic ideals, project the wounded, fragmented consciousness of their heroes. The East, on the other hand, turns into an anti-ideal, symbolizing triviality and mediocrity of the localness, stifling the novelists’ dreams and desires and hindering them from being carried away by their poetic genius. We further suggest that despite the purely artistic ambitions of these authors, their writings vividly and accurately capture the problems and tensions arising from the cultural transformation of the Ottoman Empire. Petr KučeraUniversitat Autònoma de BarcelonaarticleOttoman-Turkish novelsServet-i FünunEdebiyat-ı CedideEast and WestModern history, 1453-D204-475CAENESRúbrica Contemporánea, Vol 6, Iss 12 (2017)
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topic	Ottoman-Turkish novels Servet-i Fünun Edebiyat-ı Cedide East and West Modern history, 1453- D204-475
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description	The article deals with the late Ottoman literary movement of New Literature (Edebiyat-ı Cedide) and asks what new conceptions of East and West there emerged in the Ottoman-Turkish novel at the turn of the century. Based on that, it tries to outline the connections of the new poetics of the novel developed by Edebiyat-ı Cedide to the Ottoman modernization process. The underlying argument of the paper is that West and East appear in these novels more as two states of mind than physical entities, as two poles of consciousness. The West becomes an elaborately crafted metaphoric space, serving as a backdrop onto which the authors, influenced by Romantic ideals, project the wounded, fragmented consciousness of their heroes. The East, on the other hand, turns into an anti-ideal, symbolizing triviality and mediocrity of the localness, stifling the novelists’ dreams and desires and hindering them from being carried away by their poetic genius. We further suggest that despite the purely artistic ambitions of these authors, their writings vividly and accurately capture the problems and tensions arising from the cultural transformation of the Ottoman Empire.
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title	The Ideal of the West, the Reality of the East. Towards a New Poetics of Ottoman Modernity in the Novels of "Edebiyat-ı Cedide"
title_short	The Ideal of the West, the Reality of the East. Towards a New Poetics of Ottoman Modernity in the Novels of "Edebiyat-ı Cedide"
title_full	The Ideal of the West, the Reality of the East. Towards a New Poetics of Ottoman Modernity in the Novels of "Edebiyat-ı Cedide"
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publisher	Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
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The Ideal of the West, the Reality of the East. Towards a New Poetics of Ottoman Modernity in the Novels of "Edebiyat-ı Cedide"

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