Reading James Joyce and Orhan Pamuk

Reading James Joyce and Orhan Pamuk reveals how by embracing the idea that an individual subject and history mutually shape identities as formative processes, James Joyce and Orhan Pamuk create "portraits" adapting bildung to chart the becoming of the protagonist alongside the development of a nation.

Petru Golban holds his permanent position as Professor of English Literature and Critical Theory at the Department of English Language and Literature, Tekirdä Namik Kemal University, Turkey. The present book finds its roots from his time spent as an associate member of staff of the University of Worcester where he has conducted a research project on English and Turkish Bildungsromane.

Foreword Preliminaries: Orhan Pamuk between Text and Context 1. The Bildungsroman: graphia, bios, autos, and bildung 2. Neo-Ottomanism and Nostalgia for the Empire 3. The Bildung Nonetheless Thriving: Modernist Reshaping and Metamodernist Rewriting 4. The City of a Psychogeographic Duality of Formation: Self and Nation 5. Literary Practice as Argument: Engaging the Bildungsroman Pattern 5.1 A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 5.2 Istanbul: Memories and the City Concluding Reflections