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Making sense of history : narrativity and literariness in the Ottoman Chronicle of Na'īmā
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Title
Making sense of history : narrativity and literariness in the Ottoman Chronicle of Na'īmā / by Gül Şen.
ISBN
9789004510401
9004510400
9789004510418
Publication
Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2022]
Physical Description
xvi, 387 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Summary
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
Other formats
Online version: Şen, Gül. Making sense of history Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2022]
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
November 22, 2022
Series
The Ottoman Empire and its heritage: Politics, society and economy, volume 74
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-372) and index.
Contents
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 the 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.
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