Yazar

Jayne L. Warner

Yayınevi

I.B. Tauris

Yayın Tarihi

2017-11-01

Kategori

Biyografi


ISBN

978-1784536435

Dil

İngilizce

Sayfa Sayısı

464

Boyut

22.5 x 28.5 cm.

Açıklama

Jayne L. Warner has created a unique biographical tapestry that illuminates not only the life of one of Turkey's leading literary and cultural authorities, but also the emergence of a republic in his native country, and sheds new light on the history of one of the world's great cities. Sumptuously illustrated throughout with evocative period pictures of Istanbul, Turkish Nomad tells the extraordinary life story of this poet, thinker, and diplomat. As a young boy, Halman surveyed the last vestiges of the Ottoman Empire, walked through the ruins of Byzantium, and grew up in the modern nation created by the charismatic Mustafa Kemal Ataturk. Talat S. Halman would go on to serve the republic as its first minister of culture. The more than four decades Halman lived primarily in the United States are not overlooked but are used to discuss how his ideas developed as he taught at leading unversities-Princeton, Columbia, New York University-and introduced Americans to Turkish literature and culture through his translations and public lectures.


We In the Turkish Nomad we follow the literary, scholastic, and journalistic journey of a restless writer, who might best be described by the title of one of his books, The Turkish Muse, his 2006 collection of literary reviews tracing the development of Turkish literature during the Turkish Republic.

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A biography of the late dean of the Bilkent University Faculty of Humanities and Letters, Prof. Talat Halman, has been published by I.B. Tauris & Co. Written by Dr. Jayne L. Warner (former director of research at the Institute for Aegean Prehistory in Greenwich, Connecticut), “Turkish Nomad: The Intellectual Journey of Talat S. Halman” is described as “a unique biographical tapestry that illuminates not only the life of one of Turkey’s leading literary and cultural authorities, but also the emergence of a republic in his native country, and sheds new light on the history of one of the world’s great cities.”