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                                                                <journal-id>nesir</journal-id>
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                                                                                    <journal-title>Nesir: Edebiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi</journal-title>
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                            <issn pub-type="ppub">2757-9999</issn>
                                        <issn pub-type="epub">2822-468X</issn>
                                                                                            <publisher>
                    <publisher-name>Düşünce ve Edebiyat Araştırmaları Derneği</publisher-name>
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                                        <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.64957/nesir.1935121</article-id>
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                                                            <subject>World Languages, Literature and Culture (Other)</subject>
                                                            <subject>Comparative and Transnational Literature</subject>
                                                            <subject>Literary Studies (Other)</subject>
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                                            <subj-group  xml:lang="tr">
                                                            <subject>Dünya Dilleri, Edebiyatı ve Kültürü (Diğer)</subject>
                                                            <subject>Karşılaştırmalı ve Ulusötesi Edebiyat</subject>
                                                            <subject>Edebi Çalışmalar (Diğer)</subject>
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                                    <trans-title>Challenging Conventions: Love, Lovers, and Beloveds in Early Modern Ottoman Poetry: Christiane Czygan and Hatice Aynur, eds. De Gruyter, 2025. 206 pp.: ISBN: 9783111341545</trans-title>
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                                                                                                                                                                                                <article-title>Challenging Conventions: Love, Lovers, and Beloveds in Early Modern Ottoman Poetry: Christiane Czygan and Hatice Aynur, eds. De Gruyter, 2025. 206 pp.: ISBN: 9783111341545</article-title>
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                                                                        <contrib contrib-type="author">
                                                                    <contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">
                                        https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7619-1080</contrib-id>
                                                                <name>
                                    <surname>Tombul</surname>
                                    <given-names>Enis</given-names>
                                </name>
                                                                    <aff>BOGAZICI UNIVERSITY</aff>
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                                        <pub-date pub-type="pub" iso-8601-date="20260422">
                    <day>04</day>
                    <month>22</month>
                    <year>2026</year>
                </pub-date>
                                                    <issue>10</issue>
                                        <fpage>325</fpage>
                                        <lpage>331</lpage>
                        
                        <history>
                                    <date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="20260105">
                        <day>01</day>
                        <month>05</month>
                        <year>2026</year>
                    </date>
                                                    <date date-type="accepted" iso-8601-date="20260329">
                        <day>03</day>
                        <month>29</month>
                        <year>2026</year>
                    </date>
                            </history>
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                    <copyright-statement>Copyright © 2021, Nesir: Edebiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi</copyright-statement>
                    <copyright-year>2021</copyright-year>
                    <copyright-holder>Nesir: Edebiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi</copyright-holder>
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                                                                                                <trans-abstract xml:lang="tr">
                            <p>Christiane Czygan ve Hatice Aynur editörlüğünde hazırlanan Challenging Conventions: Love, Lovers, and Beloveds in Early Modern Ottoman Poetry başlıklı kitap, beş tematik bölüm altında erken modern dönem Osmanlı şiirinde aşk, âşık ve sevgili kavramlarını inceleyen makalelerden oluşuyor. Bu çalışmalarda ortaya konan bir bulgu, aşkın yalnızca duygusal bir tema değil, aynı zamanda toplumsal, ontolojik ve tasavvufi boyutları olan çok katmanlı bir olgu olduğudur. Kitapta özellikle gazel ve kaside gibi şiir türlerinde aşkın nasıl temsil edildiği, âşık ile sevgili arasındaki güç ilişkileri ve bu ilişkilerin dil aracılığıyla nasıl kurulduğu tartışılıyor. Bazı makaleler, kadın şairlerin konumu, Mecnun figürü üzerinden aşk ve delilik ilişkisi ya da tasavvufî şiirde aşkın dönüştürücülüğü gibi konulara odaklanıyor. Şiirdeki anlatıcı ile tarihsel yazarın kimliği arasındaki sınırın belirsizliği de makalelerin ana ekseni olmasa bile kitabın hatırlattığı başka bir mesele. Buna bağlı şekillenen bir başka soru, Osmanlı yazınının tamamen kurmaca olup olmadığı. Kitaptaki incelemeler bize aşkın anlamını ve işlevini yeniden düşünmeye davet ederken bu edebiyatın hem geleneksel kalıplara bağlı hem de toplumsal gerçeklikten izler taşıyan bir yapı sunduğunu hatırlıyor/öğretiyor.</p></trans-abstract>
                                                                                                                                    <abstract><p>Challenging Conventions: Love, Lovers, and Beloveds in Early Modern Ottoman Poetry, edited by Christiane Czygan and Hatice Aynur, is a collection of articles that examines the concepts of love, lover, and beloved in early modern Ottoman poetry through five thematic sections. One of the key findings of these studies is that love is not merely an emotional theme, but a multilayered phenomenon encompassing social, ontological, and mystical dimensions. The volume explores how love is represented particularly in poetic genres such as the ġazel and the ḳaṣīde, as well as how power relations between lover and beloved are constructed through language. Some contributions focus on topics such as the position of female poets, the relationship between love and madness through the figure of Mecnūn, and the transformative nature of love in Sufi poetry. Another issue the book brings to mind, even if not always as its central concern, is the blurred boundary between the poetic narrator and the historical author. This, in turn, raises the broader question of whether Ottoman literature is entirely fictional. The studies in the volume invite readers to rethink the meaning and function of love, while also demonstrating that this literary tradition is shaped both by established conventions and by traces of social reality.</p></abstract>
                                                            
            
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                                                    <kwd>Love</kwd>
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                                                    <kwd>  beloveds</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  Ottoman poetry</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  gazel</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  divan</kwd>
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                                                    <kwd>Aşk</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  aşık</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  maşuk</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  Osmanlı şiiri</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  gazel</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  divan</kwd>
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                                <named-content content-type="funder_name">This book review was produced without any financial support.</named-content>
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