TY - BOOK ID - 137352683 TI - Animals and the environment in Turkish culture : ecocriticism and transnational literature PY - 2019 SN - 1788318196 1786736632 1786726572 9781786726575 9781786736635 9781788318198 9781788318181 1788318188 PB - London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, DB - UniCat KW - Animals in literature. KW - Ecocriticism. KW - Landscapes in literature. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:137352683 AB - "Landscape and animals have been fundamental elements of Turkish culture from the Ottomans to the present day. This book examines representations of and attitudes toward land and animals in selected Turkish literary texts and cultural contexts. Informed by global debates in ecocriticism, ecopoetics and animal studies, Kim Fortuny explores literary and arts activism, as well as environmental interventions in the Turkish cultural sphere in light of ongoing ecological degradation in Turkey. Writers from the Turkish canon such as Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar and Nâzim Hikmet are explored alongside American and English texts to reveal common transnational environmental and ecological concerns across these distinct literary cultures. Analysing works of Turkish literature within the emerging field of ecocriticism, this interdisciplinary work will be of interest to scholars of Turkish and comparative literature and animal studies and ecocriticism across the humanities."--Bloomsbury Publishing. ER -