TURKISH LITERATURE 1

Academic year

2023/2024 Syllabus of previous years

Official course title

LETTERATURA TURCA 1

Course code

LT0014 (AF:451871 AR:247236)

Modality

On campus classes

ECTS credits

6

Degree level

Bachelor's Degree Programme

Educational sector code

L-OR/13

Period

1st Semester

Course year

1

Where

VENEZIA

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Contribution of the course to the overall degree programme goals

The course is part of the cultural subjects of the curriculum and aims at providing an introduction at the beginnings of Ottoman-Turkish literature.

Expected learning outcomes

1. Knowledge and comprehension
- To understand the social and cultural contexts of Ottoman love poetry
- To learn the rhetorical figures
- To understand the main poetical forms and the most important poets

2. Capacity of application
- To apply the knowledge on the texts
- Capacity to analyze an Ottoman gazel

Pre-requirements

None. The texts will be provided in Latin transcription, the knowledge of the Arabic alphabet is not necessary.

Contents

Α. Introduction
1. Ottoman literature and Ottoman society
2. Transcription

B. The "levels" of Ottoman poetry
1. The poetical personae
a. the lover
b. the beloved
c. the other: rival, ascet etc.

2. The mystical level

3. The level of authority

4. The level of emotion


C. Formal aspects of Ottoman poetry
1. Genres and forms

2. The rhetorics

Referral texts

ANDREWS, Walter G.: An Introduction to Ottoman Poetry. Minneapolis: Bibliotheca Islamica 1976.
ANDREWS, Walter G. & KALPAKLI, Mehmet: The age of beloveds: love and the beloved in early-modern Ottoman and European culture and society. Durham 2005.
ANDREWS, Walter G.: Poetry’s Voice, Society’s Song. Ottoman Lyric Poetry. Seattle/London 1985.

Assessment methods

The student will prepare a beyt (distich) to present at the oral examination, with translation, rhetorical analysis and interpretation.

Teaching methods

Lecture with text analysis and homework.

Teaching language

Italian

Type of exam

oral

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Definitive programme.

Last update of the programme: 13/03/2023