Aspects of poetic imitation in 15th–17th-century Turkish romances. The case of the Gul u Navrūz

Csirkés, Ferenc (2007) Aspects of poetic imitation in 15th–17th-century Turkish romances. The case of the Gul u Navrūz. Acta Orientalia, 60 (2). pp. 195-221. ISSN 0001-6446

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Abstract

The paper discusses the Gul u Navrūz romance cycle, presenting its reception history in Čaġatay and Ottoman literature. Comparing the elaborations of this picaresque mystical love story, it tries to understand (1) what might have appealed to poets to write their own version of it, (2) how the story found its way from Persian into the Čaġatay and Ottoman Turkish literary canon, (3) how it disappeared from court literature, to resurface in East Anatolian folk literature, and (4) what the aesthetic concepts of the individual authors were and how they differed from one another. Also elaborated is the interrelation of Persian and Turkish literature on the one hand, and of Ottoman and Timurid literature on the other.

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