{"product_id":"imagining-the-turkish-house-9780292718265","title":"Imagining the Turkish House","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn engaging discussion of how the concept of home inhabits the Turkish memory and imagination, becoming a muse that shapes personal and national identities.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This layered, intelligent, and sensitive study proves the existence of a tight relationship between the imagined Ottoman house and the society of the Turkish Republic... It illuminates the special place that a particular building type, now lost, can hold in the mind and heart of a whole culture, a whole nation that is struggling with modernity, history, and identity.\" Eleni Bastea, Professor of Architecture, University of New Mexico\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroduction. Welcome to the House\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 1. Bringing the Turkish House into Focus\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 2. The House Takes on the Weight of Historical Consciousness\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 3. How Fiction Positioned the Turkish House on a Memory Chain of Values\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 4. How Literature Is Spiritual Space, and How the Heart Is Superior to the Mind\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 5. The New Turkish Landscape and the Desire to Remember\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Cast of Characters\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNotes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBibliography\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIndex\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"University of Texas Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400853954903,"sku":"9780292718265","price":25.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/imagining-the-turkish-house-9780292718265","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}