Wyniki wyszukiwania:

From Orhon inscriptions to Orhan Pamuk, the story of Turkish literature from the eighth century A.D. to the present day is rich and complex, full of firm traditions and daring transformations. Spanning a geographic range from Outer Mongolia and the environs of China through Inner Asia, the Caucasus, the Middle East and North Africa, the Balkans and Europe all the way to North America, the history of Turkish literature encompasses an amalgam of cultural and literary orientations that embraced such traditions and influences as Chinese, Indian, Turkic, Mongolian, Uyghur, Russian,...

Popular Turkish Love Lyrics and Folk Legends is the first illustrated anthology
of Turkish folk poetry and legends published in the United States. Talat Halman s
eloquent, fluid telling of these engaging stories and his translations
of the love lyrics, accompanied by Zeki F?nd?kog?lu s vibrant serigraphs,
serve as a marvelous introduction to the rich world of Turkish folktales and
lyrics.
This volume brings together three of the most beloved of Anatolian
tales and legends with the life stories and selected poems of four great
folk poets Yunus Emre, Pir Sultan...

The earliest Turkish verses, dating from the sixth century A.D., were love lyrics. Since then, love has dominated the Turks' poetic modes and moodspre-Islamic, Ottoman classical, folk, modern. In style, form and sensibility, this collection offers a broad spectrum: virtually all types and varieties are represented here. The English versions are loyal to the originals and strive to be authentic poems in English.

Here are lyrics from pre-Islamic Central Asia, passages from epics, mystical ecstasies of such eminent thirteenth-century figures as Rumi and Yunus Emre, classical poems of the...