Occasions for Poetry by Oscar Aguirre-Mandujano - 9781512827309

Occasions for PoetryPolitics, Literature, and Imagination Among the Early Modern Ottomans\nAuthor(s): Oscar Aguirre-Mandujano\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press, United States\nImprint: University of Pennsylvania Press\nISBN-13: 9781512827309, 978-1512827309\nSynopsis\nHow Turkish poetry became the preferred mode for communicating, debating, and shaping political and social experience in the early Ottoman Empire\n Occasions for Poetry is a history of how Turkish poetry became the preferred mode for communicating, debating, and shaping political and social experience in the early Ottoman Empire. After the conquest of Constantinople in 1453, Ottoman elites at the imperial court turned to poetry to craft distinctive modes of expression in order to articulate their own place within the Ottoman sultanate.\n Placing Ottoman court poetry in its social and historical context, Oscar Aguirre-Mandujano argues that poetry functioned as a political act. Aguirre-Manduja.