1. Some introductory considerations on literary landscapes beyond Shiraz and Paris 2. Lost voices: Religious minorities and the literary canon in Turkey 3. Writing against the West?: On authenticity and appropriation in post-Tanzimat Literature 4. Portrait of the traveller as a young man: Mustafa Sami Efendi and his Essay on Europe 5. History beyond prose and poetry: Ali Kemal and the Ottoman historiographical tradition 6. L’héritage symboliste belge en Turquie : Emile Verhaeren et Ahmet Haşim 7. Yahya Kemal and Jean Moréas: From imitation to appropriation 8. Love in the poetry of the Five Syllabists 9. Avenging Aziyadé: On aspects of Nâzım Hikmet's love poetry