LITR.303 syllabus

Ottoman Turkish Literature
LITR.303
Fall 2011
INSTRUCTOR: Sooyong Kim <[email protected]>
Office: SOS Z08D, x1141
Office Hours: Mondays and Wednesdays 14:00-15:00, or by appointment
COURSE DESCRIPTION AND OBJECTIVES
This course surveys Ottoman Turkish literature from the fifteenth to the early-twentieth century,
across a variety of genres ranging from a satire in verse to a modernist novel. We will consider
the aesthetic principles that informed the tradition, as well as issues of convention and invention,
persona and autobiography, and representation and gender. We will also address whether
literary-critical approaches derived from the Western canon are appropriate for the Ottoman
context. The class will be discussion-oriented, so please come prepared. Grading will be based
on four requirements, assessed equally:
1. Regular attendance and participation, including one or two class presentations on an
assigned reading
2. A gazel writing project in two parts, the details of which will given in due time
3. A midterm essay (4-6 pages); topics will be provided but you can choose your own
4. A final essay (6-8 pages); topics will be provided but you can choose your own.
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Halide Edib Adıvar, Son Eseri
THE REST OF READING ASSIGNMENTS WILL BE PROVIDED AS PDF DOCUMENTS
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SCHEDULE AND READING ASSIGNMENTS
(Reading assignments may be subject to change during the semester.)
Week 1, Introduction and Background
Tuesday, September 20......................................................................................... Course Overview
Thursday, September 22 ................................................................................Defining the Tradition
Readings:
Mehmed Çavuşoğlu, “Divan Şiiri,” Türk Dili: Türk Şiiri Özel Sayısı II 52 (1986): 1-16
Cemal Kurnaz, Türküden Gazele (1997), 63-72, 98-101
Week 2, The Kaside
Tuesday, September 27.................................................................................................... Panegyrics
Readings:
Mehmed Çavuşoğlu, “Kasîde,” Türk Dili 52 (1986): 17-38
Walter G. Andrews, “Speaking of Power: The ‘Ottoman Kaside’,” Qasida Poetry in Islamic
Asia and Africa, vol. 1, ed. Stefan Sperl and Christopher Shackle (1996), 281-300; and vol. 2,
217-29, 441-43
Thursday, September 29 ..................................................................................................... Varieties
Reading:
Mehmed Çavuşoğlu, “Kasîde,” 38-77
Week 3, The Gazel
Tuesday, October 4 ................................................................................................................. Lyrics
Reading:
Cem Dilçin, “Divan Şiirinde Gazel,” Türk Dili 52 (1986): 78-90, 140-42, 212-15 (Necati, 2),
214-15 (Zati), 218-19 (Hayali), 218-221 (Yahya Bey), 220-21 (Baki, 1), and 224-25 (Ruhi)
Thursday, October 6............................................................................................................ Varieties
Reading:
Cem Dilçin, “Divan Şiirinde Gazel,” 147-54
Week 4, Eroticism and Gender
Tuesday, October 11 .................................................................................................... On Eroticism
Readings:
Walter G. Andrews and Mehmet Kalpaklı, The Age of the Beloveds: Love and the Beloved in
Early-Modern Ottoman and European Culture and Society (2005), 1-22, 32-58
Agah Sırrı Levend, Türk Edebiyatında Şehr-engizler ve Şehr-engizlerde İstanbul (1958), 1317, 119-38
XI-XX. Yüzyıllar El Yazması Metinler ve Özetleriyle Mesnevi Edebiyatı Antolojisi, vol. 2, ed.
Numan Külekçi (1999), 473-74
Thursday, October 13.................................................................................................. Women Poets
Readings:
Andrews and Kalpaklı The Age of the Beloveds, 195-216
Mehmed Çavuşoğlu, “16. Yüzyılda Yaşamış Bir Kadın Şair,” Tarih Enstitüsü Dergisi 9
(1970): 405-16
Başlangıcından Günümüze Kadar Büyük Türk Klasikleri: Tarih, Antoloji, Ansiklopedi, vol. 2
(1985), 62, 227-29
Week 5, A Few Early Mesnevis
Tuesday, October 18 ......................................................................................... Two Work by Şeyhi
Readings:
İsmail Ünver, “Mesnevi,” Türk Dili 52 (1986): 430-43
Şeyhî’nin Harnâme’si, ed. Faruk Timurtaş (1971), 20-43.
Büyük Türk Klasikleri, vol. 2, 141-42, 146-52
Gazel due
Thursday, October 20...................................................................................................... Hevesname
Reading:
Büyük Türk Klasikleri, vol. 2, 239-40, 242-44
Tacizade Cafer Çelebi, Heves-nâme, ed. Necati Sungur (2006), 226-55
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Week 6, Satires and Witticisms
Tuesday, October 25 ...................................................................................................Poetic Satires
Readings:
Edith Gülçin Amrbos, “On a Connvetional Dimension of 16th Century Scurrilous Ottoman
Satire: Keşfī’s (D. 945/1528-9) Hicviyyāt,” Journal of Turkish Studies 31 (2007): 21-39
Cem Dilçin, “Divan Şiirinde Gazel,” 154-55
Thursday, October 27..............................................................................................Witty Anecdotes
Readings:
Mehmed Çavuşoğlu, “Zâtî’nin Letâyifi,” Türk Dili ve Edebiyatı Dergisi 18 (1970): 25-51
Büyük Türk Klasikleri, vol. 4 (1986), 151
Week 7, Responses and Criticism
Tuesday, November 1 ...............................................................................................Poetic Parallels
Readings:
Dilçin, “Divan Şiirinde Gazel,” 108-15
Büyük Türk Klasikleri, vol. 2, 225 (Necati, 5) 228-29 (Mihri Hatun, 2), 114-15 (Baki, LVI)
Thursday, November 3 ....................................................................................Biographical Notices
Readings:
Dilçin, “Divan Şiirinde Gazel,” 127-28
Sehî Bey Tezkiresi (1998), 9-27, 74-75, 144-47, 194-95, 200, 218-19, 224, 248
Latîfî Tezkiresi, (1990) v-xiv, 138-40, 228-30, 272-73, 329-36, 483-84
Midterm essay due
Bayram Break
Week 9, Post Sixteenth-Century Trends
Tuesday, November 15 ...........................................................................................The Indian Style
Readings:
Dilçin, “Divan Şiirinde Gazel,” 144-45, 175-78, 180-81
Walter Feldman, “The Celestial Sphere, the Wheel of Fortune, and Fate in the Gazels of Nâ’ilî
and Bâkî,” International Journal of Middle East Studies 28 (1996): 193-215
Nâ’ilî Divânı, ed. Haluk İpekten (1990), 235, 292
Büyük Türk Klasikleri, vol. 5 (1987), 202, 204 (4), 207-08 (16), 208 (18)
Thursday, November 17.................................................................................................. “Localism”
Readings:
Dilçin, “Divan Şiirinde Gazel,” 184-90
Tunca Kortantamer, “Nedim’in Şiirlerinde İstanbul Hayatından Sahneler,” Eski Türk Edebiyatı
Makaleler, vol. 1 (1993), 337-90
Kemal Silay, Nedim and the Poetics of the Ottoman Court: Medieval Inheritance and the Need
for Change (1994), 108-20
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Week 10, Personal Narratives
Tuesday, November 22 ........................................................................The Case of the Sohbetname
Readings:
Cemal Kafadar, “Self and Others: The Diary of a Dervish in Seventeenth Century Istanbul and
First-Person Narratives in Ottoman Literature,” Studia Islamica 69 (1989): 122-50
Orhan Gökyay, “Sohbetname,” Tarih ve Toplum 3 (1985): 128-36
Thursday, November 24............................................................................Evliya Çelebi on Istanbul
Reading:
Günümüz Türkçesiyle Evliya Çelebi Seyahatnamesi (2003), vol. 1, pt. 1, 1-5, 111-19; pt. 2,
387-95, 440-47, 507-11
Week 11, Personal Narratives Continued
Tuesday, November 29
No Class
Thursday, December 1 ..................................................................................Evliya Çelebi on Cairo
Reading:
Evliya Çelebi Seyahatnamesi’nden Seçmeler (1971), vol. 15, 1-55
Response gazel due
Week 12, A Few Later Mesnevis
Tuesday, December 6...................................................................... Works by Nabi and Şeyh Galib
Readings:
Dilçin, “Divan Şiirinde Gazel,” 190-93
Büyük Türk Klasikleri, vol. 5, 267-68, 302-05; vol. 7, 36-38, 72-92
Thursday, December 8 ....................................................................................................Zenanname
Reading:
Enderunlu Fazıl, Zenannâme: Kadınlar Kitabı = The Book on Women, ed. Filiz Bingölçe
(2006), 7-17, 26-106, 112-26
Week 13, The Tanzimat Era and Modernism
Tuesday, December 13...................................................................................... Poetry in Transition
Readings:
Hüseyin Tuncer, Tanzimat Edebiyatı (1992), 14-26, 29-32, 38-41, 86-96, 99-103, 105-06
Ziyad Ebüzziya, Şinasi (1997), 379
Nefi’i Divanı, ed. Metin Akkuş (1993), 76-80
Thursday, December 15 ..........................................................................................The Early Novel
Readings:
Tuncer, Tanzimat Edebiyatı (1992), 307-14
Namık Kemal, İntibah: Ali Bey’in Sergüzeşti (1972), v-xiii, 11-21, 39-41, 72-88
Samipaşazade Sezai, Sergüzeşt (1972), iii-vi, 3-16
Week 14, At Empire’s End
Tuesday, December 20...............................................................................................Servet-i Fünun
Reading:
Hüseyin Tuncer, Servet-i Fünun (1992), 1-13, 15-31, 35-38, 94-109, 112-25
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Thursday, December 22 ..................................................................... Nigar Hanım and Her Poetry
Readings:
Nazan Bekiroğlu, Şâir Nigâr Hanım (1998), 17-24, 233-39, 246-63
Kenan Akyüz, Batı Tesirinde Türk Şiiri Antolojisi (1958), 195-99
Week 15, At Empire’s End Continued
Tuesday, December 27................................................................................A Novel by Halide Edib
Reading:
Halide Edib Adıvar, Son Eseri (2008), 11-118
Thursday, December 29
Reading:
Adıvar, Son Eseri, 119-98
Final essay due by Thursday, January 12, 2012, at the latest
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