Essays Interpreting the Writings of Novelist Orhan Pamuk: The Turkish Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
Author: | Anadolu-Okur, Nilgün |
Year: | 2009 |
Pages: | 164 |
ISBN: | 0-7734-4754-7 978-0-7734-4754-7 |
Price: | $159.95 |
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This work provides extensive critical analysis of Orhan Pamuk’s work. The contributors establish Pamuk as a universal author whose contributions to the genre of novel have not only enriched our understanding of modern Turkish literature, but have generated discussions on national identity.
Reviews
“Nilgun Anadolu-Okur’s superior craftsmanship in the present volume indicates a growing interest in appreciation and understanding of world literatures as comparative literary analysis . . .” – Prof. Talat S. Halman, Bilkent University
“The volume deserves praise not only for its judicious readings of the texts, but also for initiating a sophisticated appraisal of Pamuk in the English- speaking world.” – Prof. Jale Parla, Bilgi University
Table of Contents
Foreword(s)
by Talat S. Halman
by Jale Parla
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
The Black Book: An Ekphrastic Landscape
-Ece Aykol
My Name is Red: a Miniaturist’s Novel
-Sooyong Kim
Images of Isolation in The Silent House
-Michael McGaha
Youth, Masculinity and the Shattering of Sight in Snow
- Bede Greig Roselli
Photographs and Phantoms: Orhan Pamuk’s Monochrome Memories
-Graeme Gilloch
A Melancholic Postmodern Mock-hero In the Middle of Political Carnivalesque Madness: The Journalist-poet Ka in Snow
-A. Didem Uslu
Bibliography
Index