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 multifar...

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 Sensuality, power and the unpublished poems in the Third Dīvān (1554) of Sultan Süleymān I / Christiane Czygan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.