Bruckenschlage: Eine integrierte turkoarabische Romangeschichte (Mitte 19. bis Mitte 20. Jahrhundert)

English summary: Bruckenschlage ('Building Bridges') is the first detailled and systematic comparison of two modern Middle Eastern literatures, taking the novel genre as a paradigm. The study's synoptic approach challenges, and gets past, the concept of Arabic resp. Turkish 'national literatures', outlining a model for the description and periodisation of the processes at work in modern Middle Eastern literatures in general. An extensive comparison of the contexts, literary and extra-literary…