{"product_id":"east-west-mimesis-kader-konuk-9780804769747","title":"East West Mimesis: Auerbach in Turkey","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eEast West Mimesis\u003c\/i\u003e follows the plight of German-Jewish humanists who escaped Nazi persecution by seeking exile in a Muslim-dominated society. Kader Konuk asks why philologists like Erich Auerbach found humanism at home in Istanbul at the very moment it was banished from Europe. She challenges the notion of exile as synonymous with intellectual isolation and shows the reciprocal effects of German 駑igr駸 on Turkey's humanist reform movement. By making literary critical concepts productive for our understanding of Turkish cultural history, the book provides a new approach to the study of East-West relations.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCentral to the book is Erich Auerbach's \u003ci\u003eMimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature\u003c\/i\u003e, written in Istanbul after he fled Germany in 1936. Konuk draws on some of Auerbach's key concepts--\u003ci\u003efigura\u003c\/i\u003e as a way of conceptualizing history and \u003ci\u003emimesis\u003c\/i\u003e as a means of representing reality--to show how Istanbul shaped \u003ci\u003eMimesis\u003c\/i\u003e and to understand Turkey's humanist reform movement as a type of cultural mimesis.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kader Konuk\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0804769745\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780804769747\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Stanford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/21\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.00w x 0.50d","brand":"Kader Konuk","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44245064351999,"sku":"9780804769747","price":75.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_86d0676e-d0bb-4848-b538-043483780dad.jpg?v=1693925912","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/east-west-mimesis-kader-konuk-9780804769747","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}