On Literature and Literary Works

On Literature and Literary Works

Modernization has been a topic for all nations for a century and a half. The easiest and most comfortable ground for renewal and modernization is literature. It is natural that the renewal, modernization, or Westernization movement initiated by the Ottoman Empire in administration, law, and education would, after a while, also transfer to literature through translation, imitation, and adaptation. Thus, although not directly a literary genre, following the preparations such as the newspaper and the articles and serialization of literary works it brought, renewal experiences began in poetry, an ancient artistic tradition, alongside new genres such as short stories and plays. 

At this point, a question must be asked: If there had been no Westernization movement and Western influences, could the change and renewal of our literature have been conceived through an internal initiative? 

Prof. Dr. Orhan Okay's "On Literature and Literary Works," a collection of articles and conference papers written over the past twenty years, contains research, analysis, and commentary on general problems of literature as well as on figures and works such as Fuzuli, Şeyh Galib, Namık Kemal, Ahmed Midhat, Beşir Fuad, Tevfik Fikret, Ahmet Haşim, Yahya Kemal, Yakup Kadri, Asaf Hâlet Çelebi, Sâmiha Ayverdi, and Mehmet Kaplan. We hope that this book, published as part of Orhan Okay's "Complete Works" series, will be useful to researchers and the academic community, and will open doors to new studies.

Author: Orhan Okay

 Publisher: Dergah Publications

 ISBN: 978-975-995-428-4

 Binding: Paperback

 Language: Turkish

 Dimensions: 16.5 x 23.5 cm

 Number of Pages: 280