1st Edition
The Last of an Age The Making and Unmaking of a Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Poet
Introduction
1. Contexts: The Court and Beyond
1.1 The Court and Poetry
1.2 State, Society, and the Ottoman Way
1.3 The Social Spread of Poetry
1.4 The Matter of Poetic Training
2. A Poet in Istanbul
2.1 The New Cultural Capital
2.2 The Early Years
2.3 The Later Years
2.4 On Patronage
3. A Poet and His Work
3.1 The Remarkable Lyricist
3.2 Varieties of Convention, Questions of Audience
3.3 Of (Qualified) Praise
4. An Emerging Tradition
4.1 The Issue of Influence
4.2 Refashioning Familiar Poetry
4.3 Eastward Back
4.4 The Plain Turkish Movement Reconsidered
5 The Making of a Legacy
5.1 Mentor at Large
5.2 Zati and Baki
5.3 Linguistic Identity and Cultural Difference
5.4 A Poet Caught in Transition
Epilogue
Biography
Sooyong Kim is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English Language and Comparative Literature at Koç University, Istanbul.
