Session Details

Sunday, 28 December

256. Modern Turkish Literature

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Pacific Suite F, Marriott

Program arranged by the MLA Publications Committee

Presiding: Mutlu K. Blasing, Brown Univ.

1. “Orhan Pamuk in and against the Tradition of the Political Novel in Turkey,” Sibel Irzik, Sabanci Univ.

2. “Looking Back in Anger: Transformations of Turkish Poetry,” Selim S. Kuru, Univ. of Washington, Seattle

3. “Istanbul Times: Recovering Sacred Memory for a Secular Age in Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar’s Poetics,” Azade Seyhan, Bryn Mawr Coll.

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