Universität Wien

141026 SE Linguistics or Literary Seminar (and Bachelor's Paper) (2023W)

8.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 14 - Orientalistik, Afrikanistik, Indologie und Tibetologie
Continuous assessment of course work

TU-1, TU-2, TU-9
Empfohlen: TU-7 und TU-8
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Registration/Deregistration

Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).

Details

max. 38 participants
Language: German

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

Monday 02.10. 16:45 - 18:15 Seminarraum Turcica/H UniCampus Hof 1 1F-O1-01
Monday 09.10. 16:45 - 18:15 Seminarraum Turcica/H UniCampus Hof 1 1F-O1-01
Monday 16.10. 16:45 - 18:15 Seminarraum Turcica/H UniCampus Hof 1 1F-O1-01
Monday 23.10. 16:45 - 18:15 Seminarraum Turcica/H UniCampus Hof 1 1F-O1-01
Monday 30.10. 16:45 - 18:15 Seminarraum Turcica/H UniCampus Hof 1 1F-O1-01
Monday 06.11. 16:45 - 18:15 Seminarraum Turcica/H UniCampus Hof 1 1F-O1-01
Monday 13.11. 16:45 - 18:15 Seminarraum Turcica/H UniCampus Hof 1 1F-O1-01
Monday 20.11. 16:45 - 18:15 Seminarraum Turcica/H UniCampus Hof 1 1F-O1-01
Monday 27.11. 16:45 - 18:15 Seminarraum Turcica/H UniCampus Hof 1 1F-O1-01
Monday 04.12. 16:45 - 18:15 Seminarraum Turcica/H UniCampus Hof 1 1F-O1-01
Monday 11.12. 16:45 - 18:15 Seminarraum Turcica/H UniCampus Hof 1 1F-O1-01
Monday 08.01. 16:45 - 18:15 Seminarraum Turcica/H UniCampus Hof 1 1F-O1-01
Monday 15.01. 16:45 - 18:15 Seminarraum Turcica/H UniCampus Hof 1 1F-O1-01
Monday 22.01. 16:45 - 18:15 Seminarraum Turcica/H UniCampus Hof 1 1F-O1-01
Monday 29.01. 16:45 - 18:15 Seminarraum Turcica/H UniCampus Hof 1 1F-O1-01

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

The main subject of this seminar, “Aspects of Ottoman Literature”, is the history of Ottoman written culture in chronological, thematic and theoretical terms between the 15th and 19th centuries. The seminar will explore issues related to different literary genres and forms of production, as well as the actors in the literary world, including poets, authors, readers, patrons, scribes, and others, as well as "popular" subjects, via weekly readings, presentations, and debates. The aims of the seminar are as follows:
providing introductory historical and theoretical knowledge for Ottoman written culture before the 19th century.
giving information about the language, text and genre richness of Ottoman written culture
critically approaching, interpreting, and thinking about Ottoman primary sources
reading, interpreting, discussing and presenting different academic texts on Ottoman written culture
In the first three weeks of the classes, the foundations of the Ottoman literary history will be introduced. And in the remaining weeks, some literary examples of Ottoman literary past will be discussed. In the course of the seminar, the students are to deal with a specific aspect of the topic, give a presentation on it and write a seminar paper on it at the end.

Assessment and permitted materials

The weekly readings include samples of original source material, scholarly essays on the topic of the week, monographs, and edited volumes. Depending on how the readings are distributed each week, one or more students will get the monographs as presentations. To help students working with Ottoman/Turkish materials become familiar with the pertinent academic production in Turkish-speaking academia, certain weeks additionally feature samples from academic publications in Turkish.

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

- Attendance (max. three absences).
- The texts to be used in the lessons will be mainly in Turkish, English or German. For this reason, sufficient knowledge of Turkish, English and German is required for participation in the course and reading the material. Additionally, Ottoman knowledge is an advantage for those who want to read the original sources.
- Active participation in class: Students must prepare the designated teaching materials for each course unit. Preparation, active participation in class, and minor assignments will be considered in the overall grade. (10%)
- Response Papers (1 page) every week (15%)
- Presentation 20%
- Seminar paper 55%.

Examination topics

No examination
Preparation of a written term paper (BA thesis)

Reading list

Hakan Karateke and Helga Anetshofer, The Ottoman World - A Cultural History Reader, 1450-1700, University of California Press, 2021.
Walter Andrews, Poetry's Voice and Society's Song: Ottoman Lyric Poetry, Seattle and London: University of Washington Press: 1985.
Edith Gülçin Ambros, Life, Love and Laughter: In Search of The Ottomans' Lost Poetic Language - A Collective Volume in Memory of Ane A. Ambros, Istanbul, The Isis Press, 2015.
Dror Ze’evi, Producing Desire, Changing Sexual Discourse in the Ottoman Middle East, 1500-1900, California University Press, 2006.
Sooyong Kim, The Last of an Age - The Making and Unmaking of a Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Poet, Routled, 2019.
Halil İnalcık, Has Bağçede Ayş u Tarab, İstanbul: Türkiye İş Bankası Yayınları, 2016.
Suraiya Faroqhi, Kultur und Alltag im Osmanischen Reich, C. H. Beck, 2003.
Robert Dankoff, An Ottoman mentality: The world of Evliya Çelebi. (Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2004).
Dana Sadji, The Barber of Damascus, Nouveau Literacy in the Eighteenth Century Ottoman Levant, (Stanford University Press, 2013).
Talat S. Halman, vd., Türk Edebiyatı Tarihi (I-III). Ankara: Türkiye Cumhuriyeti Kültür Bakanlığı Yayınları, 2006.
Klaus Kreiser und Christoph K. Neumann, Geschichte des Osmanischen Reichs und der modernen Türkei, Reclam, 2020.

Die Primärquellen und Artikel werden im Laufe des Semesters bekanntgegeben.

Association in the course directory

TU-10

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