Research Article

Comparing Non-European Literatures – Dances of Mori Ōgai’s The Dancing Princess and Sabahattin Ali’s Madonna in a Fur Coat to the Music of Goethe

Number: 45 June 7, 2021
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Comparing Non-European Literatures – Dances of Mori Ōgai’s The Dancing Princess and Sabahattin Ali’s Madonna in a Fur Coat to the Music of Goethe

Abstract

Comparative literature explores the influences of older “texts” on newer ones, through a cross-cultural, interdisciplinary, and multilingual perspective. Another common practice of comparative analysis is to study how Euro-American literary texts inspire non-European ones, and vice versa. Yet, there is a methodological gap concerning the comparative studies that focus on non-European texts with no “direct” intertextual connection. On this basis, arguably, one of the most intriguing and creative ways of comparing two or more non-European works is to spot their common source texts. It is certainly not the only method of comparing non-Western texts, but it is indubitably an efficient method for positivistic intertextual analysis. This article aims to present a “case study” that may serve as a model for comparing non-European literatures. To this end, we focused on two works from Turkish and Japanese literatures that share remarkable resemblances, yet that do not have direct intertextual bonds: Mori Ōgai’s The Dancing Princess and Sabahattin Ali’s Madonna in a Fur Coat. As the major common source text that both refer to is Goethe’s Faust, we traced how these two similar non-European works are affected by Faust, and how their intertextual dances with Faust contributed to their national and international literary reputations.

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Details

Primary Language

English

Subjects

Creative Arts and Writing

Journal Section

Research Article

Authors

Publication Date

June 7, 2021

Submission Date

August 15, 2020

Acceptance Date

December 27, 2020

Published in Issue

Year 2021 Number: 45

APA
Güven, D. Ç. (2021). Comparing Non-European Literatures – Dances of Mori Ōgai’s The Dancing Princess and Sabahattin Ali’s Madonna in a Fur Coat to the Music of Goethe. Selçuk Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Dergisi, 45, 81-100. https://doi.org/10.21497/sefad.943885
AMA
1.Güven DÇ. Comparing Non-European Literatures – Dances of Mori Ōgai’s The Dancing Princess and Sabahattin Ali’s Madonna in a Fur Coat to the Music of Goethe. SEFAD. 2021;(45):81-100. doi:10.21497/sefad.943885
Chicago
Güven, Devrim Çetin. 2021. “Comparing Non-European Literatures – Dances of Mori Ōgai’s The Dancing Princess and Sabahattin Ali’s Madonna in a Fur Coat to the Music of Goethe”. Selçuk Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Dergisi, nos. 45: 81-100. https://doi.org/10.21497/sefad.943885.
EndNote
Güven DÇ (June 1, 2021) Comparing Non-European Literatures – Dances of Mori Ōgai’s The Dancing Princess and Sabahattin Ali’s Madonna in a Fur Coat to the Music of Goethe. Selçuk Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Dergisi 45 81–100.
IEEE
[1]D. Ç. Güven, “Comparing Non-European Literatures – Dances of Mori Ōgai’s The Dancing Princess and Sabahattin Ali’s Madonna in a Fur Coat to the Music of Goethe”, SEFAD, no. 45, pp. 81–100, June 2021, doi: 10.21497/sefad.943885.
ISNAD
Güven, Devrim Çetin. “Comparing Non-European Literatures – Dances of Mori Ōgai’s The Dancing Princess and Sabahattin Ali’s Madonna in a Fur Coat to the Music of Goethe”. Selçuk Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Dergisi. 45 (June 1, 2021): 81-100. https://doi.org/10.21497/sefad.943885.
JAMA
1.Güven DÇ. Comparing Non-European Literatures – Dances of Mori Ōgai’s The Dancing Princess and Sabahattin Ali’s Madonna in a Fur Coat to the Music of Goethe. SEFAD. 2021;:81–100.
MLA
Güven, Devrim Çetin. “Comparing Non-European Literatures – Dances of Mori Ōgai’s The Dancing Princess and Sabahattin Ali’s Madonna in a Fur Coat to the Music of Goethe”. Selçuk Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Dergisi, no. 45, June 2021, pp. 81-100, doi:10.21497/sefad.943885.
Vancouver
1.Devrim Çetin Güven. Comparing Non-European Literatures – Dances of Mori Ōgai’s The Dancing Princess and Sabahattin Ali’s Madonna in a Fur Coat to the Music of Goethe. SEFAD. 2021 Jun. 1;(45):81-100. doi:10.21497/sefad.943885

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