Grammatology and Literary Modernity in Turkey (Hardback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for Grammatology and Literary Modernity in Turkey The 1928 Turkish alphabet reform replacing the Perso-Arabic script with the Latin phonetic alphabet is an emblem of Turkish modernization. Grammatology and Literary Modernity in Turkey traces the history of Turkish alphabet and language reform from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century, examining its effects on modern Turkish literature.
Full description- Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
- Published: 03 November 2011
- Format: Hardback 288 pages
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- Categories: Language: Reference & General | Literary Studies: General | Literary Studies: C 1800 To C 1900 | Literary Studies: From C 1900 -
- ISBN 13: 9780199746682 ISBN 10: 0199746680
- Sales rank: 1,052,380
Full description for Grammatology and Literary Modernity in Turkey
The 1928 Turkish alphabet reform replacing the Perso-Arabic script with the Latin phonetic alphabet is an emblem of Turkish modernization. Grammatology and Literary Modernity in Turkey traces the history of Turkish alphabet and language reform from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century, examining its effects on modern Turkish literature. In readings of the novels, essays, and poetry of Ahmed Midhat, Recaizade Ekrem, Omer Seyfeddin, Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar, Peyami Safa, and Nazim Hikmet, Nergis Erturk argues that modern Turkish literature is profoundly self-conscious of dramatic change in its own historical conditions of possibility. Where literary historiography has sometimes idealized the Turkish language reforms as the culmination of a successful project of Westernizing modernization, Erturk suggest a different critical narrative: one of the consolidation of control over communication, forging a unitary nation and language from a pluralistic and multilingual society.
