Millennium of Turkish Literature : a concise History

bahşi
, 5
Baki (16 c.), 38–39, 40
Ballad of Ali of Keshan, Th
e
(
Keşanlı Ali 
Destanı
) (Taner), 126
Barthelme, Donald, 121
Batur, Enis, 129
Bayburtlu Zihni, 29
Baydur, Memet, 126
Baykurt, Fakir, 121
“Beacon” (Dağlarca), 130–31
“Beating” (Dağlarca), 111
Behramoğlu, Ataol, 117
Bekri Mustafa, 58
Bektaş, Cengiz, 118
Bektaşi sect, 16, 26, 58–59
Belge, Murat, 128
Bener, Erhan, 123
Bener, Vüs’at O., 123
Benim Adım Kırmızı
(
My Name Is Red
) 
(Pamuk), 125
Benk, Adnan, 128
Berk, İlhan, 101–2
Beş Hececiler
(Five Syllabic Poets), 84
Beyatlı, Yahya Kemal, 79, 85, 86, 90, 128
Beyaz Kale
(
Th
e White Castle
) (Pamuk), 
125
Bezirci, Asım, 128
Bilbaşar, Kemal, 121
Binyazar, Adnan, 129
Birsel, Salâh, 100
Bizim Köy
(
A Village in Anatolia
) 
(Makal), 118–19
Black Book, Th
e
(
Kara Kitap
) (Pamuk), 
125
Blasing, Randy, 90
Boccaccio, 59, 74
Bozkurt
(Gray Wolf) epic, 5–6
Bölükbaşı, Rıza Tevfik, 71
Breton, André, 95
Burak, Sevim, 121
Burian, Orhan, 92–93, 128
Cansever, Edip, 104–5, 106
Carlyle, Th
omas, 83
“Cats” (Dağlarca), 112
Celal, Peride, 121
cemâl-i mutlak,
41
Cenab Şehabettin, 74
censorship, 65, 77
Cevat Şakir (Th
e Fisherman of Halicar-
nassus), 121
Cevdet Bey ve Oğulları
(Pamuk), 125
Cezmi
(Namık Kemal), 74
Chaucer, 59
children’s tales, 59
Clown and His Daughter, Th
e
(
Sinekli 
Bakkal
) (Edib), 118
comedy: light, 77–78, 126, 127; of man-
ners, 78; theater in Turkish Republic, 
126, 127
commedia dell’arte,
25, 31, 127
concrete (found) poetry, 113
Constitutional Period, 70–71, 78–79

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Index
157
Cöntürk, Hüseyin, 128
creation, legend of, 5
criticism. 
See
literary criticism
Croce, Benedetto, 8
Crusades, 15, 16
Cubism, 100, 113
Cumalı, Necati, 114, 120, 126
Cyrillic alphabet, 1
Çağan, Sermet, 126
Çağlar, Behçet Kemal, 118
Çalıkuşu
(
Th
e Autobiography of a Turkish 
Girl
) (Güntekin), 76
Çamlıbel, Faruk Nafiz, 84, 90, 118
Çapan, Cevat, 115
Çelebi, Asaf Hâlet, 92, 113
Çınarlı, Mehmet, 118
Çiçekoğlu, Feride, 122
Dadaloğlu (19 c.), 27, 29
Dağlarca, Fazıl Hüsnü, 110–13, 118–19, 
130–31
Damar, Arif, 114
Dante, 18, 19
Dawn of Freedom (
Fecr-i Âti
) movement, 
71, 79
Dayıoğlu, Gülten, 122
“Death of the Epicures” (Beyatlı), 85
Dede Korkut
tales (
Th
e Book of Dede Kor-
kut
), 10; Islamic fl avor acquired by, 8; 
in oral tradition, 4; origins of, viii; as 
Turkish national epic, viii, 8; yearn-
ing for peace and tranquility in, 8–9
Dertli (18–19 c.), 29
destan,
27, 57
Devlet Ana
(Tahir), 121
Dıranas, Ahmet Muhip, 90, 91
“dig, the” (Yavuz), 103
Dilmen, Güngör, 126
Dinamo, Hasan İzzettin, 121
Divan-ı Hikmet
(Ahmet Yesevi), 8
Divan-ı Kebir
(Rumi), 13
Divan
literature, 34–53; under Abdül-
hamid, 71; Arabic and Persian 
infl uences in, 31, 34–35, 39; auditory 
imagination in, 40; change resisted 
in, 50; classifi cation of Ottoman 
literature, 25; conformism of, 43–44; 
folk poetry contrasted with, 29; form 
as supreme in, 35; fresh, compelling 
metaphors in, 40; as “hermetically 
sealed” from life, 44; innovations 
in, 50–53; modernist criticism of, 
39–40; mysticism versus ortho-
doxy in, 47–48; as