Edited by Şehnaz Tahir Gürçağlar, Saliha Paker and John Milton
The articles in this volume examine historical, cultural, literary and political facets of translation in Turkey, a society in tortuous transformation since the 19th century from empire to nation-state. Some draw attention to tradition in Ottoman practices and agents of translation and… read more
This paper addresses the fundamental question of imitativeness vs. originality in Ottoman poetics. By positing translation (terceme) as the central practice of literary transfer, fresh arguments are offered to shift focus away from sterile discussions of imitation onto related strategies (telif,… read more