An iridescent device : : premodern Ottoman poetry / / Christiane Czygan, Stephan Conermann, editors.

• Superior document: Ottoman Studies ; Band 5 = Osmanistische Studien
• TeilnehmendeR: Czygan, Christiane,; Conermann, Stephan,
• Place / Publishing House: Gottingen : : V&R unipress GmbH,, [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Ottoman studies (Göttingen, Germany) ; Band 5.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (268 pages) :; illustrations.

"Ten experts in premodern literature and history examine the style, genre, and performance of sixteenth century Ottoman poetry. A large number of poems, including a newly discovered imperial poem collection and the work of a poet fallen into oblivion, are discussed with regard to their multifarious functions and their contemporary lyrical appeal. Though most of these poets worked in conventional settings many of the articles in this volume point out how they broke taboos, glossed over violence, and promoted or questioned political rule, even as they appealed to their listeners on an emotional level. The authors provide ample evidence for the importance attributed to certain cities and places, as well as local affiliations and networks. These analyses show how premodern poetry operated as a tool of communication and formed an integral part of premodern social and poltiical life"--Back cover.

Table of Contents

Emotivity as a stylistic marker in Ottoman lyric poetry of the 15th and 16th centuries / Edith Gülc̦in Ambros -- The insertion of poems into Ottoman prose: mere embellishment and decoration? / Gisel Procházka-Eisl -- Poetry in the context of prose historiography, illumination or illustration? / Jan Schmidt -- The function of poetry in sixteenth century historiography: a narratological approach to the Künhü'l-aḫbār by Muṣṭafā 'Ālī / Gül Şen -- The connection between genre and form in a poem: the 16th century Ottoman elegy and the stanzaic poem / Hülya C̦elik -- Two poets, two works. Some conclusions from Ebkār-ı efkār and Miḥnet-keșān on the constants and functions of the Ottoman Mes̲nevīs from the 16th century to the 19th century / Ali Emre Özyıldırm -- "...beklerüz": an Ottoman paraphrase (naẓīre) network from the 16th century / Benedek Péri -- Was Sultan Süleymān colour-blind? Sensuality, power and the unpublished poems in the Third Dīvān (1554) of Sultan Süleymān I / Christiane Czygan -- Sacrifice on the path of the Shah martyrdom in Ḫaṭā'ī's Turkic Dīvān / Michael Reinhard Hess -- Representations of Istanbul as a literary and cultural space in Ottoman texts (1520-1566) / Hatice Aynur.