East West Mimesis

Zusatztext " East West Mimesis offers a revelatory reinterpretation of comparative literature's founding texts, and a first-rate piece of detective work, showing the scholarly world something it would otherwise never know: how much the scale of thinking encouraged by comparative literature is the accidental byproduct of Turkish attempts to grasp the West as a totality." Informationen zum Autor Kader Konuk is Associate Professor of German Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Michigan. Klappentext "East-West Mimesis" follows the plight of German-Jewish humanists who escaped Nazi persecution by seeking exile in a Muslim-dominated society. Zusammenfassung East-West Mimesis follows the plight of German-Jewish humanists who escaped Nazi persecution by seeking exile in a Muslim-dominated society.

"East West Mimesis offers a revelatory reinterpretation of comparative literature's founding texts, and a first-rate piece of detective work, showing the scholarly world something it would otherwise never know: how much the scale of thinking encouraged by comparative literature is the accidental byproduct of Turkish attempts to grasp the West as a totality."

Autorentext
Kader Konuk is Associate Professor of German Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Michigan.

Klappentext
"East-West Mimesis" follows the plight of German-Jewish humanists who escaped Nazi persecution by seeking exile in a Muslim-dominated society.


Zusammenfassung
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. She challenges the notion of exile as synonymous with intellectual isolation and shows the reciprocal effects of German émigrés on Turkey's humanist reform movement. By making literary critical concepts productive for our understanding of Turkish cultural history, the book provides a new approach to the study of East-West relations. Central to the book is Erich Auerbach's Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature, written in Istanbul after he fled Germany in 1936. Konuk draws on some of Auerbach's key conceptsfigura as a way of conceptualizing history and mimesis as a means of representing realityto show how Istanbul shaped Mimesis and to understand Turkey's humanist reform movement as a type of cultural mimesis.

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