Scholars@Duke
Erdag Göknar

Erdag Göknar

Associate Professor in the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
Asian & Middle Eastern Studies
goknar@duke.edu
2204 Erwin Road, Rm. 234, Box 90414, Durham, NC 27708-0414
2204 Erwin Road, Durham, NC 27708
Office hours Fridays, 1-3 PM  

Scholarly Works - Other

"The Light of the Bosphorus: Photography in Orhan Pamuk's 'Balkon'"

Other Los Angeles Review of Books · May 19, 2019 ORHAN PAMUK’S PHOTOGRAPHS emerge from a specific and recurring moment. As much as they capture subtle aspects of Istanbul geography in and around the iconic confluence of the Bosphorus and the Golden Horn, they also reveal the moments when the writer stops ... Link to item Cite

"A Turkish Woman in the Oedipus Complex: Orhan Pamuk's 'The Red-Haired Woman'"

Other · August 22, 2017 The two dominant and competing myths come from ancient Greece and Persia (Greece and Iran today are Turkey’s Western and Eastern neighbors): the Oedipal myth from Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex, where son unknowingly kills father, and the legend of Rostam and Sohr ... Link to item Cite

"A Nomad Between Worlds: Mohed Altrad's _Badawi_"

Other Los Angeles Review of Books · September 6, 2016 Link to item Cite

"The Novel in Turkish: From Narrative Tradition to Nobel Prize"

Other · 2008 Turkey’s modern history has been shaped by its society and its institutions. In this fourth volume of The Cambridge History of Turkey a team of some of the most distinguished scholars of modern Turkey have come together to explore the interaction between t ... Cite