Month: July 2021

Fragmented Narrative: Telling and Interpreting Stories in the Twitter Age

Books and Journals, Citizen Media, Translation

Neil Sadler Routledge, 2022 With the rise and rise of social media, today’s communication practices are significantly different from those of even the recent past. A key change has been a shift to very small units, exemplified by Twitter and its strict 240-character limit on individual posts. Consequently, highly fragmented communication has become the norm in many contexts. Fragmented Narrative sets out

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“What is in a preposition?”: Reading Turkish Literature as World Literature

Articles, Translation

Review of Burcu Alkan and Çimen Günay-Erkol, eds. Turkish Literature as World Literature. NY: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. Mehtap Ozdemir, 22 July 2021, published in The Medium Conventionally traced back to Goethe’s conceptualization of the term Weltliteratur in the early decades of the nineteenth century, world literature has gained traction both as a critical construct and an academic field in the past

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