عنوان

Literature as a mirror of history: A comparative study of the historical fictions of Ahmet Hikmet Müftüogˇlu (1870-1927) and Jūrjī Zaydān (1861-1914)

Number

TL48069

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انگلیسی

Title Proper

Literature as a mirror of history: A comparative study of the historical fictions of Ahmet Hikmet Müftüogˇlu (1870-1927) and Jūrjī Zaydān (1861-1914)

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[Thesis]

First Statement of Responsibility

Esra Tasdelen

Subsequent Statement of Responsibility

Shissler, A Holly

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

The University of Chicago

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2014

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

285

Text of Note

Committee members: Bashkin, Orit; Lewis, Franklin

Text of Note

Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-321-43287-9

Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree

Ph.D.

Discipline of degree

Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

Body granting the degree

The University of Chicago

Text preceding or following the note

2014

Text of Note

This dissertation analyzes select fictional works of Ahmet Hikmet Müftüogˇlu (1870-1927) and Jūrjī Zaydān (1861-1914) that were published in the Ottoman Empire and Egypt at the beginning of the twentieth century. Through a comparative analysis, this study shows how the authors popularized the historical novel and short story genres in the Middle East, how they envisaged the nation, viewed the nation's past, and utilized the power of literature as a tool to convey this vision to the readers. After a brief introductory discussion of the rise of the novel genre and the effects of print capitalism in the Middle East, the dissertation focuses on the lives of these intellectuals as products of major developments in the region such as the rise of Turkism in the late Ottoman Empire and the Nahda (The Arab Renaissance) in Egypt and Syria. The close textual analysis of the novels and short stories that follows reveals important connections between intellectual debates prevalent in the Middle East at the beginning of the twentieth century as they relate to the main themes in the novels, such as history, identity, empire, governance, minorities, lineage, ethnicity, race, gender, religion and language.

Middle Eastern literature; Middle Eastern history; Religion; Literary criticism; Vision; Novels; 20th century; Text analysis; Literature

Subject Term

Language, literature and linguistics;Social sciences;Arab literature;Arab nationalism;Turkish literature;Turkish nationalism

Ferrell, Kevin R.

Shissler, A Holly

Subdivision

Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

The University of Chicago

Call Number

1647599691; 3668296

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[Thesis]

276903

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