The way to reform democracy is not to cheer it, which we do too much, but to reform it, which we do too little
The way to reform democracy is not to cheer it, which we do too much, but to reform it, which we do too little
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Gönül BakayGönül Bakay studied at London and Istanbul Universities. She teaches in the Women's Studies Department of Istanbul University and at Beykent University. Her published works include two books in Turkish: Virginia Woolf and Communication and Changing Image of Women: from Chaucer to Browning. Recent articlesTurkey and Shakespeare From the late Ottoman era to the modern republic, Turks have found their passions, longings and even their politics mirrored in the work of Englands greatest playwright. Gönül Bakay tracks an enduring friendship. The Turk in English Renaissance literatureEuropes relationship with Turkey a country whose historical legacy is at once imperial, martial, Islamic, Asiatic, and European - has always been problematic, and frequently refracted through culture as well as politics. A Turkish scholar traces the fascinating evolution of an alien but also intimate and surprising figure in the English literary imagination. |
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