03547nam 2200709Ia 450 991045964480332120200520144314.00-8047-7575-310.1515/9780804775755(CKB)2670000000061605(EBL)618843(OCoLC)680036241(SSID)ssj0000416348(PQKBManifestationID)11259410(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000416348(PQKBWorkID)10422091(PQKB)10046129(StDuBDS)EDZ0000127706(MiAaPQ)EBC618843(DE-B1597)564876(DE-B1597)9780804775755(Au-PeEL)EBL618843(CaPaEBR)ebr10428916(OCoLC)1178769577(EXLCZ)99267000000006160520091118d2010 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrEast-West mimesis[electronic resource] Auerbach in Turkey /Kader KonukStanford, Calif. Stanford University Pressc20101 online resource (316 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8047-6974-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Humanism Goes East -- 2. Turkish Humanism -- 3. Mimicry in Modern Turkey -- 4. Germany on the Bosporus -- 5. Writing Mimesis in Istanbul -- Epilogue: Turkey’s Humanist Legacy -- Appendix: Lectures by Erich Auerbach in Turkey -- Notes -- References -- Index East West Mimesis follows the plight of German-Jewish humanists who escaped Nazi persecution by seeking exile in a Muslim-dominated society. Kader Konuk asks why philologists like Erich Auerbach found humanism at home in Istanbul at the very moment it was banished from Europe. She challenges the notion of exile as synonymous with intellectual isolation and shows the reciprocal effects of German émigrés on Turkey's humanist reform movement. By making literary critical concepts productive for our understanding of Turkish cultural history, the book provides a new approach to the study of East-West relations. Central to the book is Erich Auerbach's Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature, written in Istanbul after he fled Germany in 1936. Konuk draws on some of Auerbach's key concepts—figura as a way of conceptualizing history and mimesis as a means of representing reality—to show how Istanbul shaped Mimesis and to understand Turkey's humanist reform movement as a type of cultural mimesis.Literary historiansTurkeyIstanbulPhilologistsTurkeyIstanbulJewish refugeesTurkeyIstanbulHumanismTurkeyHistory20th centuryTurkeyIntellectual life20th centuryEuropeIntellectual lifeTurkish influencesTurkeyCivilizationWestern influencesElectronic books.Literary historiansPhilologistsJewish refugeesHumanismHistory809BKonuk Kader1042396Holbrook Victoria1042397MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910459644803321East-West mimesis2466596UNINA