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    Body and symptom : illness in Peyami Safa’s novels
    (Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2023., 2023) Yücekurt Ünlü, Şerife Seda.; Akyıldız, Olcay.
    This dissertation examines the representation of illness in Peyami Safa’s novels. It primarily aims to answer the question of how illness is embodied in both the human body and the body of fiction in Peyami Safa’s corpus. Additionally, this study explores the interplay between these bodies and raises the issue of illness being used as a literary device to portray marginalization. This study also takes into account the works published under the pseudonym Server Bedi, which have received limited attention in Turkish literary studies. In this dissertation, illness as a thematic and narratological element points to a fundamental difference between the novels signed with Peyami Safa’s name and those signed under the pseudonym Server Bedi. This study mainly argues that illness serves as a crucial aspect in Peyami Safa’s engagement with writing. It also problematizes the idea of finitude/infinity thematically and deepens the problem of writing a modern “novel” stylistically. The present study intends to offer a fresh and comprehensive perspective on Peyami Safa's corpus. Furthermore, it seeks to contribute to the illness and health studies in Turkish literature and provides a groundwork for further research in this field.
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    Potentials of women’s writing : a gyno-critical reading In Turkish literature (1895-1950)
    (Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2023., 2023) Ulusman, Bilge.; Akyıldız, Olcay.
    This thesis makes a gyno-critical reading of women writers’ stories and novels -after the modern literary genres occured- from Hanımlara Mahsus Gazete in which the constitutive discourse of women’s writing has gained a sudden intensity in late Ottoman period up to the demands of parity (müsavat-ı tamme) in Second Constitutional Era and the pathriarcal tutelage in the early modern Turkish Republican period. For this reason, this study tries to determine the common themes, images and narrative strategies of the excluded women’s writing by male-dominated literary canon and the “antithetical mirror” of Ottoman intellectuals or state feminism. Thereby this thesis seeks for an alternative representation of women’s writing to established literary historiographies and periodisation; and tries to make women writers’ challenge strategies to patriarchal sexual politics and conversion of literary genres or narrative functions clear.