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- Title
ISTANBUL AND CULTURAL MEMORY.
- Authors
Serafimova, Margarita
- Abstract
Paradoxes of history helped Istanbul become a focal point of the European humanitarian elite in the 1930s and in particular one of the topoi of literary theory. A key location in a number of individual destinies, it played an essential role in the establishment of distance as a critical method and served as an excellent observatory - due to its borderline status - for tracing literary processes diachronically and synchronically. As a result, Istanbul became not only the homeland of significant literary studies, but also an important stage in conceptualizing literature as a global phenomenon: a place where banishment goes beyond personal fate and becomes part of the biography and philosophy of comparative literature.
- Subjects
CULTURE; COMPARATIVE literature; HISTORY of Istanbul, Turkey
- Publication
Balkan Studies / Études Balkaniques, 2020, Vol 56, Issue 2, p286
- ISSN
0324-1645
- Publication type
Article