Making Sense of History : : Narrativity and Literariness in the Ottoman Chronicle of Naʿīmā.

"In Making Sense of History: Narrativity and Literariness in the Ottoman Chronicle of Na'ima, Gül Sen offers the first comprehensive analysis of narrativity in the most prominent official Ottoman court chronicle. Using an interdisciplinary approach that combines methods from history and l...

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Superior document:The Ottoman Empire and Its Heritage
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Place / Publishing House:Boston : : BRILL,, 2022.
©2022.
Year of Publication:2022
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:The Ottoman Empire and Its Heritage
Physical Description:1 online resource (405 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • The life and career fo Naʻīmā Muṣṭafā Efendi in historical context
  • Court chronicles as a genre in the context of Ottoman historiography
  • General literary features
  • Interpolations
  • Analysis of surface structure
  • Analysis of the narrative structure
  • Creating continuity : the concept of history
  • The concept(s) of Time
  • Strategies to cope with experiences of contingency.