“The title of Salman Rushdie’s famous essay, which later formed the title of a book of essays by him, ‘Imaginary Homelands’, is based on one side of a common and age-old perception of home: we make it in the mind or the imagination. Ordinary language has versions of it too: home is where the heart is, I don’t feel at home in my own town/country, this is my spiritual home, etc. On the other hand, there is a physical aspect to home too – ranging from walls associated with ancestral property or parents or some other such inheritance, and extended, through the imagining of communities, as Benedict Andersen would phrase it, sometimes to a land, a country, even a nation. To say that any one of these broad definitions of home is wrong is to cut off large sections of humankind: those who do not belong where they live or those who cannot return to where they used to live. To feel at home and to live at home are both valid cravings, and though they do not necessarily overlap, neither can be dismissed in favour of the other” Tabish Khair

Home in Western Language is a compilation of selected papers presented at the 7th BAKEA Symposium, 2021. In the time of the pandemic, when home has acquired more meanings, this book reads the idea of home and explores its connotations as presented in different genres and ages of English, American, French and literatures.

Tomâr-ı Turûk-ı Aliyye başta olmak üzere daha çok dinî ve tasavvufî eserleri ile bilinen SâdıkVicdânî’nin klasik şiir etkisinde kaleme aldığı eserleri de vardır. Bu şiirlerinde aruz ölçüsünü başarılı bir şekilde kullanmış; özellikle Nağamât-ı Vicdâniye’de methiye, mersiye, sâkînâme, hicviye gibi türlerde gazel, kaside, mesnevi, murabba, şarkı, terci-i bend, tahmis, terbi ve tardiye gibi eski şiir nazım şekilleriyle güzel örnekler vermiştir.

Bu çalışma ile klasik şiir geleneğinin etkisinin ne denli güçlü bir şekilde 20. yüzyılda da devam ettiğini gösteren en güzel örneklerden olan Nağamât-ı Vicdâniye, Latin harflerine aktarılarak günümüz okur ve araştırmacılarının beğenisine sunulmuş ve dönemin önemli isimlerinden SâdıkVicdânî’nin hayatı ve şair kimliği detaylı bir şekilde incelenmiştir.

Zâir bu cihânbî-bekâdır

Her hâlet-i kâbil-i fenâdır

İkbâline meyl ederse kalbin

Eyyâmıhayât pek hebâdır

Uyma heves ü hevâ-yı nefse

Zîrâ o mugâyirrızâdır

Ben ölmüş isem a nûr-ı dîde

Pendim sana i’tibâr-nümâdır

The literary history, as I conceive it, is an account of one strand, so to speak, in a very complex tissue: it is connected with the intellectual and social development; it represents movements of thought which may sometimes check and be sometimes propitious to the existing forms of art; it is the utterance of a class which may represent, or fail to represent, the main national movement; it is affected more or less directly by all manner of religious, political, social, and economical changes; and it is dependent upon the occurrence of individual genius for which we cannot even profess to account. I propose to take the history of English literature in the eighteenth century. I do not aim at originality: I take for granted the ordinary critical judgments upon the great writers of whom so much has been said by judges certainly more competent than myself, and shall recall the same facts both of ordinary history and of the history of thought. What I hope is, that by bringing familiar facts together I may be able to bring out the nature of the connection between them; and, little as I can say that will be at all new, to illustrate one point of view, which, as I believe, it is desirable that literary histories should take into account more distinctly than they have generally done.