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Item Fantastic novel :|a genre of dubious existence in the shadow of Ottoman/Turkish modernization (1875-1960)(Thesis (Ph.D.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2010., 2010.) Aslan, Pelin.; Esen, Nüket,This dissertation examines fantastic novel genre in Turkish literature within the period between the late nineteenth century when the novel emerged as a new genre and the mid twentieth century which marks a turning point in terms of fantastic novel. The novel is perceived as a means by which the authors represent the modernization process they favor since they claim an active role in shaping of modernization discourse, starting from Tanzimat period, the Constitutional period and the declaration of the Republic till nineteen sixties. Within this context, the fantastic novel is materialized as a function to convey the authors’ own argumentations on modernization. The fantastic novel aims either to impose a modernization which is based on the rational, materialist and positivist world view or to include spiritual and mystical world view into the modernization. Nevertheless, it does not become widespread due to the social and the literary reasons, apart from the fact that it becomes a popular genre in nineteen forties when the modernization discourse loses its strictness and the publishing industry flourishes and diversifies. Having discussed some of those social and literary reasons, this dissertation concludes that the fantastic novel cannot display itself as a central genre but remains as a peripheral one within the time period of the scope of this dissertation.Item Modernity and subjectivity in the literary critism of Namık Kemal(Thesis (Ph.D.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2007., 2007.) Altuğ, Fatih, 1977-; Esen, Nüket,This dissertation examines the relation of the literary criticism of Namık Kemal to modern Ottoman subjectivity. There is a close relation between the literary criticism and the formulation of new Ottoman subjectivity. The late Ottoman production of subjectivity is the foundation of the critical subjectivity of Namık Kemal. This subjectivity is produced as a result of the traumatic encounter between occidental modernity and the 19th century Ottoman symbolic order. Critical attitudes are determined by the conditions of crisis. The literary criticism of Namık Kemal tries to recuperate Ottoman subjectivity which is injured by the alterity of occidental modernity. Within the critical conditions, Arabic, Persian and old Ottoman (divan) literatures in addition to the modern occidental literature are perceived as an alterity which is related to bringing order into the literary chaos. Exclusion, inclusion, abjection, idealization, universalization, nativization or nationalization are the main critical attitudes of Namık Kemal in order to cope with the crisis of literary and cultural alterities. This representational literary system produces the new Ottoman literary subjectivity by eliding the injuring alterity and occluding of the object of criticism in the interests of the modern Ottoman subject. Cultural and literary appropriations of the alterities show that the modern Ottoman literary subject is instituted through constraints, constituted through practices of subjection/subjectivization. The critical subjectivity of Namık Kemal, synchronously, produces an autonomous subject position and performs the essential subjection of the modern Ottoman literary criticism to the Arabic, Persian, old Ottoman and occidental literatures.