03452nam 2200697Ia 450 991082186180332120200520144314.00-8047-7575-310.1515/9780804775755(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 0engurnn#---|u||utxtccrEast-West mimesis Auerbach in Turkey /Kader Konuk1st ed.Stanford, Calif. Stanford University Pressc20101 online resource (316 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8047-6974-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front matter --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 --IndexEast 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 influencesLiterary historiansPhilologistsJewish refugeesHumanismHistory809BKonuk Kader1707047MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910821861803321East-West mimesis4198629UNINA