The Turkish Novel and the Quest for Rationality

Acknowledgements Prologue Introduction 1 The Rationality of Turkish Modernity 1 Appropriating Rationality 2 Military Reforms and Intellectual Concerns 3 Scientistic Rationality 4 Rational Nationhood 2 Reason Demands Rational Novels Discourse on the Novel 3 Araba Sevdasi--a Novel of Bad Education and Civilized Monsters 1 Books and Follies: Bihruz Bey's Misadventures in Reading 2 Between Divertissement and Travail--or, How to Approach the Novel 3 amlica Garden: Irrational Uses of Rational Spaces 4 Yaban: Inventing the Adversary in Irrational Provinces 1 Confronting the Peasant: Noble Savage or Beast? 2 Parade of Beasts against the Humanist 3 Object of an Idea, or the Truth of the Peasant 5 The Past as an Object: Orientalist Fantasies of Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar 1 Objectifying the Past: Orientalist Aestheticization of Culture 2 Continuing a Tradition and Confining the Past 3 Where to Find Peace of Mind: Huzur as a Novel of Ottoman Fantasies 3.1 Between Nuran and Ihsan--Sacred Light and Secular Beneficence 3.2 Not an Odalisque from a Matisse Painting 4 Eliminating the Past and Resetting the Clocks in Saatleri Ayarlama Enstit s 6 Reason's Quarrel with Totalizing Rationality in Oguz Atay 1 Reason versus Totalizing Rationality 2 Butchering and Philosophy: How Rationality Mutilates Reason 3 Pure Reason's Union with Na ve Reason Epilogue Bibliography Index