Hüseyin Alhas

Ankara Sosyal Bilimler Üniversitesi / Social Sciences University of Ankara, English Language and Literature, Faculty Member

Hacettepe University, English Language and Literature, Graduate Student

Durham University, English Studies, Visiting Researcher (203)

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Hüseyin Alhas is an academic and translator, whose scholarly pursuits encompass a broad spectrum of literary studies. His primary areas of research include English poetry, Romanticism, and Turkish Romanticism. He delves deeply into Epic Studies, with a particular emphasis on Turkish epics and Comparative Epic Studies. His investigations also extend to the exploration of literary topoi in Lycia, the nature of heroic poetry within world literature, and the transformation of epic heroes in seventeenth-century England. Notably, he focuses on the works of William Davenant and John Milton, examining their contributions to the epic tradition.
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William Blake and His Circle: A Checklist of Scholarship in 2020

Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly

This year, Vera Serdechnaia, who has collected and compiled sources in Russian and other Cyrillic... more This year, Vera Serdechnaia, who has collected and compiled sources in Russian and other Cyrillic languages, has kindly agreed to join the checklist team. As is evident below, there is much work being done on Blake in languages other than English, so I thank all my collaborators in helping make the annual checklist as comprehensive as possible. As always, the annotations to entries from their respective areas are theirs. If any reader is interested in covering scholarship in languages not detailed above, please contact me. While it may be a lagging indicator, Blake scholarship continued at a steady clip in 2020, despite the global pandemic. Exhibitions were, of course, the major exception, as discussed in this issue by Luisa Calè. William Blake at Tate Britain had the good fortune to wrap up just under the wire in February 2020, and I have recorded a substantial number of new reviews and notices to complement the hundred that appeared in 2019. (As was my practice last year, I have c...

The Shifting Faces of Epic Heroes: Unity and Diversity in Seventeenth-Century English Literary Criticism

RumelİDE Journal of Language and Literature Studies, 2024

Seventeenth-century England, renowned for its epic poems, stands as one of the most fruitful peri... more Seventeenth-century England, renowned for its epic poems, stands as one of the most fruitful periods in the history of English literary criticism in terms of epic theory. One of the most significant topics of literary criticism during this era is the evolution of epic heroes. The critics at the time had comprehensive knowledge of the existing pagan and Christian traditions of epic heroes which were varied and interwoven. Moreover, the critics of the period were well acquainted with the literary criticisms of late Renaissance Italy and seventeenth-century France. However, they did not simply absorb influences from Greek, Roman, French, and Italian sources. Instead, English critics engaged in an active dialogue with these traditions, interpreting and adapting their ideas in light of their own cultural, historical, and theological context. This enabled critics to create individual approaches towards epic heroes, thereby making English literary criticism diverse but also too fragmented to form a cohesive group. This aspect of the period makes drawing the contours of the epic heroes immensely challenging. However, despite the overriding eclecticism inherent in the literary criticism of the period, this article indicates that there is a surprising degree of consensus on certain characteristics of epic heroes. Accordingly, this article examines the concept of epic heroes in seventeenth-century English literary criticism, focusing on four key aspects: the didactic role of epic heroes, their depiction as paragons of virtue, the significance of their lineage, and the intricate process of Christianising them.

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