CfP: “A Conceptual Perspective on Late Ottoman Literature"
Guest Editor: Dr. Özen Nergis Dolcerocca (University of Bologna)
The eighth issue of Nesir: Journal of Literary Studies is inviting submissions for a special issue titled “A Conceptual Perspective on Late Ottoman Literature”.* This issue aims to bring together scholarly works in Turkish or English that examine the critique of literary modernity, the reconstruction of concepts, and the development of non-Western modern literary forms in 19th-century Ottoman-Turkish literature.
Participants are expected to focus on a specific concept in Ottoman literature through historical analysis and critical evaluation. Studies to be submitted within this framework may focus on concepts regarding literary theory, such as originality/imitation, authorship, translation, literary criticism and publishing dynamics. This special issue, which is open to research articles in Turkish and English, aims to enrich the diversity and inclusiveness of the field.
You can submit your research articles, translation articles, critical essays, book reviews, documents and research notes until 15 March 2025 via https://nesirdergisi.com/
Themes and concepts to explored in this issue may include the following:
- Reading, writing and library culture
- Literary publishing and the changing practices of patronage
- Nature, wisdom: the transformation of the epistemology of science
- Edeb, adab, morality and the changing perceptions of decency
- Concepts and practices of translation and translators
- Imitation, appropriation and individuality
- Author, critic and changing prose tradition
* This issue is part of the European Research Council (ERC) funded NONWESTLIT project (“Modernising Empires: Enlightenment, Nationalist Vanguards and Non-Western Literary Modernities,” GA 950513).
