The Turkish Novel and the Quest for Rationality / / Ayse Ozge Kocak Hemmat.

• Author: Hemmat, Ayse Ozge Kocak.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden,, Boston : : Brill | Rodopi,, 2019.
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Textxet: Studies in Comparative Literature ; 91.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (202 pages).

The Turkish Novel and the Quest for Rationality is the first book to contextualize the Turkish novel with regard to the intellectual developments motivating the Turkish modernization project since the 18th century. The book provides a dialectical narrative for the emergence and development of the Turkish novel in order to highlight the genre’s critical role within the modernization project. In doing so, it also delineates the changing forms the novel assumes in the Turkish context from a platform for new literature to a manifestation of crisis in the face of totalizing rationality. Vis-a-vis modernization's engagement with rationality, The Turkish Novel and the Quest for Rationality reveals unexplored ways of conceptualizing the development of the genre in non-western contexts.

Table of Contents

Introduction / Ayşe Özge Koçak Hemmat -- The Rationality of Turkish Modernity / Ayşe Özge Koçak Hemmat -- Reason Demands Rational Novels / Ayşe Özge Koçak Hemmat -- Araba Sevdası-a Novel of Bad Education and Civilized Monsters / Ayşe Özge Koçak Hemmat -- Yaban: Inventing the Adversary in Irrational Provinces / Ayşe Özge Koçak Hemmat -- The Past as an Object: Orientalist Fantasies of Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar / Ayşe Özge Koçak Hemmat -- Reason’s Quarrel with Totalizing Rationality in Oğuz Atay / Ayşe Özge Koçak Hemmat -- Epilogue / Ayşe Özge Koçak Hemmat.