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Three languages, one question. Left to right: Mecmua-i Ebüzziya (Istanbul, 1880), Russkoe bogatstvo (1876), Kokumin no tomo (Tokyo, 1887)
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قنغی تألیف ادیبانهمز واردر که تزیینات لفظیهدن آیرلدیغی حالده بحق شایان تحسین اولهبیلسون
"Which of our literary works, stripped of their verbal ornament, could rightly deserve praise?"
Namık Kemal, "Lisân-ı Osmânî'nin Edebiyatı Hakkında Bazı Mülâhazâtı Şâmildir," Tasvîr-i Efkâr, 1866
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Да — у нас нет литературы!
“Yes — we have no literature!”
V. G. Belinsky, "Литературные мечтания", Molva, 1834
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我國俗がもてはやせる小説稗史は未熟にして尚美術の質に乏しく
"The novels our country prizes are immature; they still lack the qualities of art."
Tsubouchi Shōyō, 『小説神髄』, vol. 1 (Shōgetsudō, 1885), 32v
How did writers in Russia, the Ottoman Empire and Japan build modern literatures in dialogue with Europe, and against it?
Three Traditions, Shared Questions
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Ottoman Empire, 1839–1920
From the Tanzimat reforms to the early Republic: how Ottoman writers argued over imitation, language and a national literature. Go to page -
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Russia, 1770–1905
From the first literary journals to the Revolution: the thick journals where criticism became a public institution. Go to page -
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Japan, 1853–1912
From the opening of Japan to the Second World War: how bungaku became “literature”. Go to page
NONWESTLIT by the numbers
3 literary traditions, 3 languages
23,000+ documents from nineteenth-century periodicals
126 journals: 86 Ottoman, 23 Russian, 17 Japanese
5 open datasets on Hugging Face
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Explore literary modernity in the Ottoman Empire, Russia and Japan.
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This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No 950513).
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