Aspects of poetic imitation in 15th–17th-century Turkish romances. The case of the Gul u Navrūz
Aspects of poetic imitation in 15th–17th-century Turkish romances. The case of the Gul u Navrūz
Author(s): Ferenc CsirkésSubject(s): Studies of Literature, Aesthetics, 15th Century, 16th Century, 17th Century
Published by: Akadémiai Kiadó
Keywords: comparative literature; Islamic mysticism; Persian and Turkish romance; Timurid era; Ottoman literature; literary canon; imitation;
Summary/Abstract: The paper discusses the Gul u Navrūz romance cycle, presenting its reception history in Čaġatay and Ottoman literature. Comparing the elaborations of this picaresque mystical love story, it tries to understand (1) what might have appealed to poets to write their own version of it, (2) how the story found its way from Persian into the Čaġatay and Ottoman Turkish literary canon, (3) how it disappeared from court literature, to resurface in East Anatolian folk literature, and (4) what the aesthetic concepts of the individual authors were and how they differed from one another. Also elaborated is the interrelation of Persian and Turkish literature on the one hand, and of Ottoman and Timurid literature on the other.
Journal: Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae
- Issue Year: 60/2007
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 195-221
- Page Count: 27
- Language: English
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