Making sense of history narrativity and literariness in the Ottoman Chronicle of Naʿīmā
The life and career fo Naʻīmā Muṣṭafā Efendi in historical context -- Court chronicles as a genre in the context of Ottoman historiography -- General literary features -- Interpolations -- Analysis of surface structure -- Analysis of the narrative structure -- Creating continuity : the concept of hi...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Leiden, Boston
Brill
2022
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| Schriftenreihe: | The Ottoman Empire and its heritage
volume 74 |
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | The life and career fo Naʻīmā Muṣṭafā Efendi in historical context -- Court chronicles as a genre in the context of Ottoman historiography -- General literary features -- Interpolations -- Analysis of surface structure -- Analysis of the narrative structure -- Creating continuity : the concept of history -- The concept(s) of Time -- Strategies to cope with experiences of contingency. "In Making Sense of History: Narrativity and Literariness in the Ottoman Chronicle of Na'ima, Gül Sen offers the first comprehensive analysis of narrativity in the most prominent official Ottoman court chronicle. Using an interdisciplinary approach that combines methods from history and literary studies, Sen focuses on the purpose and function of the chronicle-not just what the text says but why Na'ima wrote it and how he shaped the narrated reality on the textual level. As a case study on the literalization of historical material, Making Sense of History provides insights into the historiographical and literary conventions underpinning Na'ima's chronicle and contributes to our understanding of elite mentalities in the early modern Ottoman world by highlighting the author's use of key concepts such as history and time"-- |
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| Beschreibung: | Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 337-372 |
| Beschreibung: | XVI, 387 Seiten Illustrationen |
| ISBN: | 9789004510401 978-90-04-51040-1 |