The book in your hands aims to give an opportunity to make a comparison of Western and Eastern literatures in terms of the literary products discussed in this study. The book starts with a brief introduction about comparative studies in the world and in Turkey. Readers will find examples from English, American and Turkish literature. Katherine Mansfield’s The Garden Party and Said Ertem’s Bacayı İndir Bacayı Kaldır is analysed from Luis Althusser’s perspective. A comparative study of American Ernest Hemingway’s short story, Hills Like White Elephants and Turkish Memduh Şevket Esendal’s Gece Kuşu by means of stylistic method is given. It is also intended to analyse William Butler Yeats on the one hand and on the other hand one of the sultans of the Ottoman Empire, Suleiman the Magnificent by comparing them through the books Her şey ayartabilir beni and Muhıbbî Divanı.

Türk-Alman Göçmen Edebiyatının günümüz popüler yazarlarından biri olan Safiye Can, bugüne kadar yayınladığı üç şiir kitabının yanı sıra öykü ve çeviri eserleriyle ön plana çıkmıştır. Yaklaşık altmış beş yıllık göç tarihinin toplumsal, siyasal, kültürel değişim ve gelişimini harmanlayarak şiirlerine yansıtan Can, aşk, yalnızlık, memleket hasreti gibi konuları farklı motif ve söz sanatlarıyla işleyerek okura sunmuş, bugüne kadar almış olduğu edebiyat ödülleri ve kendisiyle ilgili medyada yer alan pek çok haber ve söyleşi onun edebi zenginliği ve derinliğini gözler önüne sermiştir. Somut şiirlerden kolaj şiirlere, iki mısralık kısa şiirlerden uzun destansı şiirlere kadar neredeyse her türde usta işi şiirler kaleme almıştır. Şiirleri bazen içinizi ısıtır, bazen soğuk bir titreme yaratır. Bazen mutlu gözlerle gökyüzüne baktırır, bazen hüzünlendirir. Ama her durumda, umuda kırpılan bir göz, aşka uzanan bir el imgesi karşılar sizi her şiirinde!

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.