Abstract
The paper discusses the Gul u Navrūz romance cycle, presenting its reception history in Čaġatay and Ottoman literature. Comparing the elaborations of this picaresque mystical love story, it tries to understand (1) what might have appealed to poets to write their own version of it, (2) how the story found its way from Persian into the Čaġatay and Ottoman Turkish literary canon, (3) how it disappeared from court literature, to resurface in East Anatolian folk literature, and (4) what the aesthetic concepts of the individual authors were and how they differed from one another. Also elaborated is the interrelation of Persian and Turkish literature on the one hand, and of Ottoman and Timurid literature on the other.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 195-221 |
| Number of pages | 27 |
| Journal | Acta Orientalia |
| Volume | 60 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - Jun 2007 |
Keywords
- Comparative literature
- Imitation
- Islamic mysticism
- Literary canon
- Ottoman literature
- Persian and Turkish romance
- Timurid era
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Cultural Studies
- History
- Literature and Literary Theory