Halman, Talât Sait, <br/><br/>
Rapture and revolution :  essays on Turkish literature / 
by Talat S. Halman ; edited by Jayne L. Warner. 
 - xiv, 403 pages ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Myths and monoliths -- The ancient and Ottoman legacy -- Islamic themes in Turkish poetry : imitations and mutations -- Rapture and revolution : poetry of the Islamic Near East -- Near Eastern literatures : a generation of renewal -- Death and rebirth of myths in Near Eastern literatures -- Turkish literature in the 1960s -- Turkish literature : modes of modernity -- Critics, dramatics, poetics -- The evolution of Turkish drama -- Comic spirit in the Turkish theater -- Poetry and society : propaganda functions of poetry in the Turkish experience -- Big town blues : peasants "abroad" in Turkish literature -- The heart of the Turkish tale : fun and fantasy for all ages -- Turkish poetry -- Mystics and modern masters -- Passions of the mystic mind : Rumi's poetry and philosophy -- The Turk in Rumi / Rumi in Turkey -- Yunus Emre's humanism -- Yunus Emre : a triumph of humanism -- Süleyman the magnificent : poet -- Nazım Hikmet : lyricist as iconoclast -- "I am listening to Istanbul" : Orhan Veli Kanık -- "On the Nomad Sea" : Melih Cevdet Anday -- Voices of memory : Oktay Rifat -- Sait Faik : the fiction of a flâneur. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0815631464 (hardcover : alk. paper) 9780815631460 (hardcover : alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Turkish literature--History and criticism.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PL205  / .H35 2007