The Age of Beloveds (häftad)
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Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
440
Utgivningsdatum
2005-01-01
Förlag
Duke University Press
Medarbetare
Kalpakli, Mehmet
Illustratör/Fotograf
14 illus
Illustrationer
14 illus.
Dimensioner
234 x 166 x 27 mm
Vikt
631 g
Antal komponenter
1
ISBN
9780822334248

The Age of Beloveds

Love and the Beloved in Early-Modern Ottoman and European Culture and Society

av Walter G Andrews, Mehmet Kalpakli
Häftad,  Engelska, 2005-01-01
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The Age of Beloveds offers a rich introduction to early modern Ottoman culture through a study of its beautiful lyric love poetry. At the same time, it suggests provocative cross-cultural parallels in the sociology and spirituality of love in Europefrom Istanbul to Londonduring the long sixteenth century. Walter G. Andrews and Mehmet Kalpakli provide a generous sampling of translations of Ottoman poems, many of which have never appeared in English, along with informative and inspired close readings. The authors explain that the flourishing of Ottoman power and culture during the Turkish Renaissance manifested itself, to some degree, as an age of beloveds, in which young men became the focal points for the desire and attention of powerful officeholders and artists as well as the inspiration for a rich literature of love.The authors show that the age of beloveds was not just an Ottoman, eastern European, or Islamic phenomenon. It extended into western Europe as well, pervading the cultures of Venice, Florence, Rome, and London during the same period. Andrews and Kalpakli contend that in an age dominated by absolute rulers and troubled by war, cultural change, and religious upheaval, the attachments of dependent courtiers and the longings of anxious commoners aroused an intense interest in love and the beloved. The Age of Beloveds reveals new commonalities in the cultural history of two worlds long seen as radically different.
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    Ottoman Lyric Poetry

    Walter G Andrews, Najaat Black, Mehmet Kalpakli

    The Ottoman Empire was one of the most significant forces in world history and yet little attention is paid to its rich cultural life. For the people of the Ottoman Empire, lyrical poetry was the most prized literary activity. People from all walk...

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The Age of Beloveds is a treasure and a masterpiece. With breathtakingly extensive original research, it is beautifully written, in a style both inviting and impressive. It is the fruit of a lifetimes project to add Ottoman literature to the canons of world literature.Victoria Holbrook, author of The Unreadable Shores of Love: Turkish Modernity and Mystic Romance The Age of Beloveds is a unique and powerful book. There is nothing remotely like this out there and yet as one reads it one is struck by the dire need for the sort of basic information and insights it provides about the other half of the Mediterranean during the early modern period.Mara Rosa Menocal, author of Shards of Love: Exile and the Origins of the Lyric A wonderful and brave book that is so fun to read. . . . An astonishing account of love and the beloved where they intersect with sex, spirituality, politics and power. . . . Amazing!Orhan Pamuk, author of the novels Snow and My Name Is Red

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Walter G. Andrews is Research Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilization at the University of Washington. He is the author of Poetrys Voice, Societys Song: Ottoman Lyric Poetry and An Introduction to Ottoman Poetry. Mehmet Kalpakli is Chair and Assistant Professor of History and Director of the Center for Ottoman Studies at Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey. They are coauthors of Ottoman Lyric Poetry: An Anthology.

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Preface ix A Guide to Ottoman Turkish Transcription, Pronunciation, Names, and Titles xi 1. Introduction 1 2. Beloved Boys (and Girls) 32 3. Love Scripts I, Male Bonding 59 4. Love Scripts II, Poems about Poetry about Love 85 5. Love, Sex, and Poetry 113 6. Women and the Art of Love 163 7. Seduction and Reversal 217 8. To Die For...: Love and Violence in the Age of the Beloveds 251 9. Love, Law and Religion 270 10. The End of an Age 304 11. Renaissance, Renaissances, and the Age of the Beloveds 329 Appendix: Ottoman Sultans during the Age of the Beloveds 355 Notes 357 Glossary of Ottoman Terms 389 Bibliography 393 Index 411

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