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    AfriKI: machine-in-the-loop Afrikaans poetry generation
    (Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2021) Baş, Anıl; Department of Comparative Literature; van Heerden, Imke; Other; Department of Comparative Literature; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; 318142
    This paper proposes a generative language model called AfriKI. Our approach is based on an LSTM architecture trained on a small corpus of contemporary fiction. With the aim of promoting human creativity, we use the model as an authoring tool to explore machine-in-the-loop Afrikaans poetry generation. To our knowledge, this is the first study to attempt creative text generation in Afrikaans.
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    An Ottoman holy land: two early modern travel accounts and imperial subjectivity
    (Purdue University Press, 2021) Bashkin, Orit; Department of Comparative Literature; Kim, Sooyong; Faculty Member; Department of Comparative Literature; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; 52305
    This study investigates how the Holy Land was experienced and perceived in the early modern era, by comparing the accounts of two travelers representing distinct but complementary vantage points: Evliya Celebi (d. ca. 1685), a Sunni Muslim from Istanbul, the capital of the Ottoman Empire, and Shemu'el ben David (d. 1673), a Karaite Jew from the Crimean Khanate, a vassal state on the periphery. Considering their specific views of the Holy Land and the kinds of traditions that the two contemporaries relate about the same sites they visited, we argue that both perceived the Holy Land not only through an intersecting scriptural lens, but also through a similar imperial lens that drew attention to and valorized the Ottoman presence over the sacred territory. Thus more broadly, the comparative study offers an alternative non-Eurocentric frame for exploring the relationship between empire, subject, and the holy in the early modern era.
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    An Ottoman order of Persian verse
    (Brill Academic Publishers, 2019) N/A; Department of Comparative Literature; Kim, Sooyong; Faculty Member; Department of Comparative Literature; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; 52305
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    Capturing the beat moment: cultural politics and the poetics of presence
    (Southern Illinois University Press, 2011) NA; Department of Comparative Literature; Mortenson, Erik; Faculty Member; Department of Comparative Literature; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; N/A
    Capturing the Beat Moment examines the assumptions the Beats made about the moment and their attempt to "capture" this "immediacy," focusing on the works of Kerouac and Ginsberg as well as on those of women and African American Beat writers.
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    Chronometrics in the modern metropolis: the city, the past and collective memory in A.H. Tanpınar
    (Johns Hopkins University (JHU) Press, 2015) Department of Comparative Literature; Dolcerocca, Özen Nergis; Faculty Member; Department of Comparative Literature; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; 237469
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    Comparative ecocriticism: an introduction
    (Palgrave, 2017) Department of Comparative Literature; Ergin, Meliz; Faculty Member; Department of Comparative Literature; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; 101428
    The introduction explains the rationale of the book, highlighting its contribution to ecocritical theory, comparative ecocriticism, and ecopoetics. The theoretical novelty of the book derives from its comparative and cross-disciplinary approach in the first two chapters which investigate the theoretically fertile links between deconstruction, social ecology, and new materialism. Ergin makes a compelling case for a new poetics structured around the concept of “entanglement,” and outlines entanglements in these three strands of thought so as to demonstrate the relevance of this concept in theoretical terms. She then examines the ecological intersections of nature and society through a comparative analysis of the works of the American poet Juliana Spahr and the Turkish writer Latife Tekin. As the first book-length study of comparative Turkish and American ecocriticism, the book responds to the immense need for theorizing about ecology and poetics across new geographical, cultural, and linguistic contexts.
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    Derrida's otobiographies
    (University of Hawaii Press, 2017) Department of Comparative Literature; Ergin, Meliz; Faculty Member; Department of Comparative Literature; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; 101428
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    Editor's introduction
    (Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2016) Celestin, Roger; Crowley, Patrick; DalMolin, Eliane; Department of Comparative Literature; MacDonald, Megan Catherine; Faculty Member; Department of Comparative Literature; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; N/A
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    Entanglements between the Tanzimat and al-Nahdah: Jurji Zaydan between Tarikh adab al-lughah al-turkiyyah and Tarikh adab al-lughah al-'arabiyyah
    (Brill, 2019) Department of Comparative Literature; Arslan, Ceylan Ceyhun; Faculty Member; Department of Comparative Literature; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; 280297
    This article analyzes comparisons between Arabic and Turkish literatures in literary histories from the late Ottoman period, with a particular focus on works by Jurji Zaydan (1861-1914). Drawing upon Alexander Beecroft's concept of "literary biomes," it argues that these comparisons overlooked intersections of Arabic and Turkish literatures in the "Ottoman literary biome" and depicted them as belonging to two separate "biomes." I define the "Ottoman literary biome" as the transcultural space of the Ottoman Empire that allowed the circulation of a multilingual textual repertoire and cultivated a cultural elite. Through foregrounding the transcultural context of Ottoman literary biome, I demonstrate that modern Arabic and Turkish literatures morphed in a reciprocal entanglement. My work finally calls for the fields of Arabic literature and comparative literature to further flesh out the diversity of literary biomes in which Arabic texts circulated.
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    Entwined narratives: Latife Tekin's ecopoetics
    (Palgrave, 2017) Department of Comparative Literature; Ergin, Meliz; Faculty Member; Department of Comparative Literature; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; 101428
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