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Hermits, Stoics, and Hysterics: Turkish Democracy and the Female Bildungsroman
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Novel (2014) 47 (1): 90–107.
Published: 01 May 2014
...Meltem Gürle Be it the top-down secularism of the Kemalist reforms or the authoritarian conservatism of the present Islamist government, the political will in Turkey has persistently ignored the individual, the most valuable component of democratic modernity. The Turkish bildungsroman voices...
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Secular Blasphemies: Orhan Pamuk and the Turkish Novel
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Novel (2012) 45 (2): 301–326.
Published: 01 August 2012
...Erdağ Göknar Turkish novelists have often contested the authoritarian tendencies of the republican state. Orhan Pamuk was charged with insulting Turkishness in 2005, emphasizing a long-standing opposition between author and state as well as between literature and secularism. Though Pamuk's trial...
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The Novel and the Ottoman Institution of Slavery: Domesticity and Slave Labor in Namık Kemal's İntibah
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Novel (2024) 57 (2): 145–161.
Published: 01 August 2024
...Arif Camoglu Abstract This article makes a case for a critical engagement with the Ottoman institution of slavery and slave trade in its globalist rethinking of the rise of the novel. It argues that production of late Ottoman Turkish novelistic writing hinged on a domestic imagination to which...
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Novel (2012) 45 (2): 159–164.
Published: 01 August 2012
... the ideological readings to which all criticism predicated on the meta-
phor of “representation” is limited.
Finally, Erdag˘ Göknar’s “Secular Blasphemies: Orhan Pamuk and the Turkish
Novel” provides us with something that literary scholarship has not yet given us:
the Turkish Pamuk. Göknar’s essay...
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Contributors
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Novel (2012) 45 (2): ii.
Published: 01 August 2012
... of Empire: The Poetics of Victorian Sovereignty.”
erdaG˘ göknar is assistant professor of Turkish studies in the Department of Eurasian Studies at
Duke University. He is author of Orhan Pamuk, Secularism, and Blasphemy: The Politics of the Turkish Novel
(forthcoming) and coeditor of Mediterranean...
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Contributors
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Novel (2014) 47 (1): v–vi.
Published: 01 May 2014
... in Casablanca, Cairo, and Tehran
meltem gu¨ rle is assistant professor of foreign languages at Bog˘azic¸i University and is currently
finishing a book on Turkish modernism titled ‘‘Beyond Property and Propriety: The Turkish Bildungs-
roman and Its Dynamics
vaughn rasberry is assistant professor...
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The Arts of Unpleasure
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Novel (2015) 48 (3): 474–476.
Published: 01 November 2015
... entirely” (164). Each engages the distractions of mass culture, and each comes out intoxicated, narcotized, and immensely miserable, generating “a readerly affect of mixed despair and delight even as they renounce the pursuit of pleasure” (166). The confection Turkish Delight appears, amazingly, in both...
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How to Be a Good Reader of World Literature
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Novel (2020) 53 (1): 132–136.
Published: 01 May 2020
... and distance between Western readers and his foreign characters. Furthermore, by altering the representation of historical events in Turkey in ways that elude most non-Turkish readers, Pamuk “thematize[s] the limits of the mimetic representation in world literature” (84) and reveals how realism is always...
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Forgotten Modernisms
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Novel (2002) 35 (2-3): 324–326.
Published: 01 November 2002
... Kaladjian relays the narrative of the 1915 genocide
of Armenians by the Turkish state, he also locates traces of that genocide in texts of main-
stream modernist writings by Pound, Herningway, and Woolf, at the same time as he fore-
grounds examples of a self-conscious language of gaps, omissions...
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Anomalous Bodies
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Novel (2005) 38 (2-3): 295–297.
Published: 01 November 2005
... in eighteenthqentury Brit-
ain, or a straight forward recovery of overlooked early fiction, may find themselves frus-
trated with this book's dogged refusal of systematicity. Readers excited by a "patchwork"
(14) of rich details and anecdotes-from the use of sign language in a Turkish seraglio to
the catty...
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Another Eighteenth Century
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Novel (2000) 34 (1): 128–130.
Published: 01 May 2000
... subjects. An analysis of epistemological and rhetorical modes in Lady Mary
Wortley Montagu's Turkish Embassy letters (1763) appears next to a chapter exploring
Edmund Burke's A Philosophical Enquiry into the Sublime and the Beautiful (1757), Samuel
Johnson's Rasselas (1759), and William...
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Crazy Rich Asians
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Novel (2020) 53 (2): 285–289.
Published: 01 August 2020
... Montagu's carefully detailed reactions to the women she meets and interiors she sees in Western Europe and the Middle East both align Montagu with “the Orient” and work to distinguish her from it. In her Turkish Embassy Letters , Montagu discusses and performs “taste,” emphasizing the role of this faculty...
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Ticket to a Museum: Reading Orhan Pamuk in Our Times
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Novel (2022) 55 (3): 518–546.
Published: 01 November 2022
... wishes with his museum “to teach not just the Turkish people but all the people of the world to take pride in the lives they live. . . . [I]f the objects that bring us shame are displayed in a museum, they are immediately transformed into possessions in which to take pride” (518). In this curatorial role...
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Time Wandering: Problems of Witnessing in the Romantic-Era Novel
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Novel (2010) 43 (1): 140–147.
Published: 01 May 2010
... “that our sense of time is produced by ‘the
train of ideas which succeed one another in our Minds we can prolong our lives
by having more ideas. He illustrates this point with two stories taken from the
Turkish Tales published in English in 1708, in the second of which an infidel Egyp-
tian sultan...
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Heterosexual Horror: Dracula, the Closet, and the Marriage-Plot
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Novel (2010) 43 (2): 251–270.
Published: 01 August 2010
... was that we were leaving the West and entering the East; the most Western of
splendid bridges over the Danube, which is here of noble width and depth, took us
among the traditions of Turkish rule. (9)
Train timetables provide for the predictable transformation of the future into the
present...
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In the Wake of the Novel: The Oriental Tale as National Allegory
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Novel (1999) 33 (1): 5–31.
Published: 01 May 1999
... by
Franqois P6tis de la Croix's Mille et un jours: contes persans (1710-12), which neatly inverts
Galland's frame narrative. This was translated immediately as Persian Tales. In addition, see
Petis's Turkish Tales (1707), and Abbe Bignon's The Advenfures of Abdalla, Son of Hanif (1712;
cans...
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Ein Weites Feld as Post–Cold War Novel
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Novel (2015) 48 (2): 190–207.
Published: 01 August 2015
... be lost. Indeed, his Bovaryism makes visible not just what was but also what might have been. In book 1, Fonty is asked the time by a young Turkish woman, who mistakes the verb raten (to advise) for verraten (to betray): “Would you be so kind as to betray to us what time it is . . .” Fonty...
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Something Extraordinary Keeps Happening: J. G. Ballard's Enclave World
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Novel (2018) 51 (2): 272–291.
Published: 01 August 2018
... experiences as traumatic memory another reinvents as a kind of poetry: “[P]eople create their own mythologies,” he says, having just described a dead Turkish aviator, his plane suspended in the waters of a Canadian lake, as having flown “home” ( 106 ). Ballard has described Kindness as narrating “my life...
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On Gathering: Or, The Birth of Global Fiction from the Spirit of Tragedy
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Novel (2020) 53 (1): 76–95.
Published: 01 May 2020
... of collectivity. In this way, Embassy attunes its readers, “no matter where they happen to be,” to the act of participating within non-sovereign arrangements. This affordance comes to the fore in a review of Smith's story by the Turkish journalist Kaya Genç, available online at the LA Review of Books...
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Hawthorne on the Paradox of Popular Sovereignty
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Novel (2014) 47 (1): 24–42.
Published: 01 May 2014
... in a situation where everyone speaks the same language, on reading Haw-
thorne’s story, must guess again. Robin first inquires after his relative at an inn that
seems to be a virtual haven of cosmopolitan hospitality. Described as ‘‘a Turkish
Caravanasary the inn is run by a Frenchman and harbors a cross...
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