bilig-23/ Autumn 2003

CLASSICAL TURKISH AND PERSIAN LITERATURE FROM THE
VIEWPOINT OF COMPARATIVE LITERATURE RESEARCHES

 

Prof. Dr. Adnan KARAISMAILOĞLU
Kırıkkale University
Faculty of Arts and Sciences


ABSTRACT

       In the Classical Turkish Literature researches there is an important need for utilization of the concepts and methods of the comparative literature science that can contribute to national literatures. History of Literature that considers setting out the literary values, tastes and sensitivities in the disciplined way as a goal had serious problems in Turkey in the very beginning. The fact that the process that lied under the Turkish literary tradition in Anatolia since the 13th century considered the geography and the language as foreign and Anatolian tradition as an "imitation" was the primary source of the problem. The researches employing new methods on the issues that were neglected up to nowadays can provide opportunity for different evaluations. For instance, thousands of couplets in Persian narrating about the Turkish statesman and their cultural values in the initial periods show that the Turks directly participated in the literary traditions of the Khorasan and Maveraunnehir region that developed after the adoption of Islam.


Key Words :
Comparative literature, Classical Turkish Literature, poem

 

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