Myths and monoliths -- The ancient and Ottoman legacy -- Islamic themes in Turkish poetry: imitations and mutations -- Rapture and revolution : poetry of the Islamic Near East -- Near Eastern literatures : a generation of renewal -- Death and rebirth of myths in Near Eastern literatures -- Turkish literature in the 1960s -- Turkish literature : modes of modernity -- Critics, dramatics, poetics -- The evolution of Turkish drama -- Comic spirit in the Turkish theater -- Poetry and society : propaganda functions of poetry in the Turkish experience -- Big town blues : peasants "abroad" in Turkish literature -- The heart of the Turkish tale : fun and fantasy for all ages -- Turkish poetry -- Mystics and modern masters -- Passions of the mystic mind : Rumi's poetry and philosophy -- The Turk in Rumi / Rumi in Turkey -- Yunus Emre's humanism -- Yunus Emre : a triumph of humanism -- Süleyman the magnificent : poet -- Nazım Hikmet : lyricist as iconoclast -- "I am listening to Istanbul" :
