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In this eye-opening book, C. Ceyhun Arslan shows us the transformations of concepts and analytical paradigms in Middle Eastern literatures' journey from multilingual Ottoman canon in the 19th century to monolingual Arabic, Persian and Turkish national literatures in the 20th century and translated world literature in the 21st century. --Wen-chin Ouyang, SOAS, University of London With an innovative focus on the late Ottoman and post-Ottoman Middle East, The Ottoman Canon traces a theoretically informed analysis of the multilingual Ottoman literary ""reservoir"" as it informs mutually formative aspects of Turkish and Arabic national literatures. A well-researched study of multivalent cultural translation that will be of certain interest to specialists across multiple fields. --Erdağ Göknar, Duke University

"In this eye-opening book, C. Ceyhun Arslan shows us the transformations of concepts and analytical paradigms in Middle Eastern literatures' journey from multilingual Ottoman canon in the 19th century to monolingual Arabic, Persian and Turkish national literatures in the 20th century and translated world literature in the 21st century. --Wen-chin Ouyang, SOAS, University of London With an innovative focus on the late Ottoman and post-Ottoman Middle East, The Ottoman Canon traces a theoretically informed analysis of the multilingual Ottoman literary ""reservoir"" as it informs mutually formative aspects of Turkish and Arabic national literatures. A well-researched study of multivalent cultural translation that will be of certain interest to specialists across multiple fields. --Erdağ G�knar, Duke University"

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C. Ceyhun Arslan is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at Koç University. His articles and book chapters have appeared in journals and edited volumes such as Journal of Mediterranean Studies, Journal of Arabic Literature, Comparative Literature Studies, Middle Eastern Literatures, The Routledge Handbook of Arabic Poetry and Sea of Literatures: Towards a Theory of Mediterranean Literature. He has been recently awarded a Georg Forster Fellowship for Experienced Researchers from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.

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