East West mimesis

East West mimesis: Auerbach in Turkey

by Konuk, Kader

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'East West Mimesis' follows the plight of German-Jewish humanists who escaped Nazi persecution by seeking exile in a Muslim-dominated society. Kader Konuk asks why philologists like Erich Auerbach found humanism at home in Istanbul at the very moment it was banished from Europe.

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  • Full title :East West mimesis : Auerbach in Turkey / Kader Konuk.

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'East West Mimesis' follows the plight of German-Jewish humanists who escaped Nazi persecution by seeking exile in a Muslim-dominated society. Kader Konuk asks why philologists like Erich Auerbach found humanism at home in Istanbul at the very moment it was banished from Europe.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2010

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The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource (xiv, 299 pages) : : illustrations, maps

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9780804775755, 0804775753
  • DOI:10.1515/9780804775755
  • oclc:ocn680036241
  • LC Classification:PN75.A9
  • Dewey Decimal:809

Table of Contents

Introduction -- Humanism goes east -- Turkish humanism -- Mimicry in modern Turkey : the place of German and Turkish Jews -- Germany on the Bosporus : Nazi conspiracies and émigré politics -- Writing Mimesis in Istanbul -- Epilogue : Turkey's humanist legacy.

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Subjects

Asie Mineure -- Vie intellectuelle -- 2… Auerbach, Erich Civilization -- Western influences Europe Europe -- Intellectual life Europe -- Vie intellectuelle Historiens de la littérature -- Turquie History HISTORY -- Modern -- 20th Century Humanism Humanism -- History -- 20th century. --… Intellectual life Intellectual life -- Turkish influences Jewish refugees Jewish refugees -- Turkey Literary Criticism -- General Literary historians Literary historians -- Turkey Philologists Philologists -- Turkey

Writers

Konuk, Kader

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