The Middle Eastern Press as a Forum for Literature - Couverture souple

Unbehaun, Horst

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 3631399308 ISBN 13 : 9783631399309

Editeur : Peter Lang AG, 2003

Synopsis

Research on Middle Eastern press is of great importance for comparative historical studies. Many editors of newspapers and magazines were not only journalists, but also writers, poets, thinkers and politicians. These intellectual leaders used non-official journals as a means of accelerating public discourse on reforms in the Ottoman Empire and later on in its successor states. Introducing new genres of literature to the Middle East they serialized novels, short stories and travelogues, experimented with new kinds of poetry and let satire blossom. The 15 contributors approach this thematics from different perspectives : Some concentrate on certain newspapers, literary journals or satirical magazines, others centre on the biographies of editors or writers. Although the main focus of this book is on the Ottoman and Persian press until 1914, some articles extend this scope to include Post-Ottoman Iraq, Syria, Turkey and Cyprus.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

The Editor : Horst Unbehaun is a professor at the Georg-Simon-Ohm-University of Applied Sciences in Nuremberg. He received a doctorate degree in 1995 at Bamberg University. Between 1996 and 2001 he lectured as an assistant at the Department of Modern Middle East Studies at Erlangen-Nürnberg University. His main interests of research are modern Turkish studies, the history of the Anatolian press, and Muslim migration to Europe.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Peter Lang AG
• Date d'édition: 2003
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3631399308
• ISBN 13: 9783631399309
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 276
• Coordonnées du fabricant: r.boehm-korff@peterlang.com; r.boehm-korff@peterlang.com; ; Gontardstraße 11; Berlin; 10178; Allemagne