Literatürü

Literatürü is a term encountered in Turkish-language scholarly writing to refer to the body of literature on a given subject or the corpus of literary works within a tradition. The term is derived from the Turkish word literatür (literature) and is used to emphasize the collected, comprehensive nature of the works being considered. In bibliographic and scholarly contexts, literatürü signals a meta-level focus rather than analysis of a single work.

Usage of literatürü varies by institution and discipline; it is more common in library science, bibliography, and humanities where researchers compile and analyze many sources to map a field. It is distinct from edebiyat (the field of literature or the study of literature) and from the study of individual texts; literatürü concerns the total corpus, trends, gaps, and connections across works.

Typical activities associated with literatürü include compiling comprehensive bibliographies, performing literature reviews, conducting historiography of a field, and applying citation- and corpus-based methods to assess influence, reception, and evolution of topics. It can be applied to national literatures, literary periods, genres, or cross-cultural corpora.

Critics note that the term may be regional or stylistic and that many Turkish scholars simply use literatür or related phrases to express similar notions. See also literature, bibliographies, historiography, corpus linguistics, literary criticism.

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