4. Portrait of the traveller as a young man: Mustafa Sami Efendi and his Essay on Europe

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. TABLE OF CONTENTS 6
3. 1. Some introductory considerations on literary landscapes beyond Shiraz and Paris 9
4. 2. Lost voices: Religious minorities and the literary canon in Turkey 15
5. 3. Writing against the West?: On authenticity and appropriation in post -Tanzimat Literature 27
6. 4. Portrait of the traveller as a young man: Mustafa Sami Efendi and his Essay on Europe 37
7. 5. History beyond prose and poetry: Ali Kemal and the Ottoman historiographical tradition 51
8. 6. L'héritage symboliste belge en Turquie: Emile Verhaeren et Ahmet Haşim 61
9. 7. Yahya Kemal and Jean Moréas: From imitation to appropriation 69
10. 8. Love in the poetry of the Five Syllabists 77
11. 9. Avenging Aziyadé: On aspects of Nâzim Hikmet's love poetry 103