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Item A crisis of representation :|the literary identity of hijabi woman in Turkish novels(Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2021., 2021.) Balta, İclal Didem.; Köroğlu, Erol.This dissertation examines the ethical and problematic meaning attributed to hijabi woman identity representations in Turkish novels (1910-2017) in terms of narrative ethics. Hijabi woman, who is the subject of this dissertation, will be demonstrated masquerading as a guise or a marginal excess at the literary scene in the framework of the post-structuralist approach's information (Derrida, Lacan, Ahmed). Using the notion of "narrative progression," it explores the problematic conditions of production and reception of the hijabi typologies, which also strongly influences the woman's self-image. By focusing on three breaking points in the representation of the hijabi characters, this study argues that hijab carries a meaning that textualizes the woman image as a persona who lacks individual self-identity and agency elements. These breaking points, which are examined in four separate sections, also correspond with the periodization of the issue of hijab, respectively as “conversion” (1910-1960), “neglection” (1960-1997), “exclusion,” and “inclusion” (1997-up to now) in this study. At each breaking point, the definition of hijabi characters changes, and they are categorized as “veiled,” “headscarfed,” and “turbaned” figures who exhibit the problematic aspects of modernization by their bodies. Hijab, as the primary signification of the “conversion,” is examined as the boundary between a woman's self-identity and the representation of this in Turkish novels that function as a symbol for writers to manifest their political stands. This symbolic role requires the woman protagonist to get through mental, physical, and psychological stages that introduce unveiling as the criteria of abandoning the premodern lifestyle and attaining the modern ideal. The different narrative strategies employed in materializing women refer that the problems inherent to women’s representation do not progress solely in a chronology, but multiple dynamics make this open to inner differentiation. In this sense, the problematic identity of hijab unfolds cultural gender issue that essentially shows the symbolic value of the body.Item New novel, old village: The history, origin and end of the village novel (1950-1980)(Thesis (Ph.D.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2018., 2018.) Irmak, İsmail Erkan.; Köroğlu, Erol.This study examines the generic, cultural, historical and political determinants of village novels written roughly between 1950 and 1980. In the history of Turkish literature, every text on the village was included in the village novel genre without any criteria other than the place where the novel passed. In most cases, a similar reductionist approach has been exhibited in world literatures, and village novels have been classified only by looking at the scene where the events take place. In order to show the problems of this point of view, the novel has been analyzed in a conceptual way as a genre. Another issue addressed in the study is the question of how village novels should be defined in Turkish literature. With this intention, the Village Institutes that played a dominant role in the emergence of village novelists were examined and Mahmut Makal’s Bizim Köy, which could be considered as the first important representative of the graduates, was also interpreted historically and generically. In addition to literary theories, the historical, cultural and political conditions that set the stage for the emergence of these texts were taken into account and the question of how village novelists and their works were received in literary debates was questioned. Finally, focusing on Fakir Baykurt's novels, common features encountered in almost all village novels have been interpreted with close reading method. In conclusion, this study seeks to provide a new perspective to village novels, and to build a foundation to help future researches.Item Stuck between two worlds: Karamanlidika literary production, Evangelinos Misailidis and Temaşa-i Dünya ve Cefakâr u Cefakeş as a case of rewriting(Thesis (Ph.D.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2014., 2014.) Şişmanoğlu Şimşek, Şehnaz.; Köroğlu, Erol.; Misaēlidis, Euangelinos,This dissertation aims to situate in modern Turkish literature a narrative fiction, previously overlooked by Turkish literary historians, called Temaşa-i Dünya ve Cefakâr u Cefakeş (1871-1872) by Evangelinos Misailidis (1820-1890), an Ottoman Christian-Orthodox citizen. The dissertation is built on three objectives: First of all, Karamanlidika literature is foregrounded as one of the significant aspects forming the plurality of nineteenth century Ottoman literature. Secondly, Karamanlidika literature is analysed in terms of its processes of production and multidimensional relations of dominance with contemporary Ottoman-Muslim-Turkish and Greek literatures analysing Temaşa-i Dünya as a case study. The third objective is to criticise the argument that Temaşa-i Dünya is just an imitation of the Greek novel O Polipathis (1839). Using mainly Gérard Genette’s theoretical framework and narratological concepts, it can be said that Misailidis has significantly transformed Polipathis semantically and literarily, by changing the style and the language of the narrative, adding different characters, stories and contexts as well as traditional folklore forms having muslim and non-muslim origins. Hence, this study also focuses on the problem of the rewriting of a text using varied writing strategies. The major factor determining the content, literary features and the genre of Temaşa-i Dünya is “liminality”; described as “being in a threshold state ‘betwixt and between’ existing orders.” A member of the Turcophone Anatolian Orthodox community, often treated as being an anomaly by the Grecophone Greek authorities from the second half of the nineteenth century onwards, Misailidis, stuck between Ottoman/Greek, Muslim and Anatolian identities, created a narrative which is “liminal” in various aspects. The text moves between the ideology of the Greek Enlightenment, the social and linguistic Ottoman-Greek and Ottoman-Muslim traditions and the Christian Orthodox religion. Finally, this dissertation claims that, as it contains a diversity of genres and speech as well as new narrative possibilities, Temaşa-i Dünya is an original novel that reveals the multicultural Ottoman world and Ottoman literature in the nineteenth century.Item The economy of sense in Oktay Rifat’s poetry(Thesis (Ph.D.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.) Aydoğan, Yüce.; Köroğlu, Erol.This dissertation examines the conditions of production, emergence and circulation of poetic sense in Oktay Rifat’s (1914-1988) poetry. Using the notion of “economy of sense”, it explores the problematic of poetic creation and verbal event. By focusing on Rifat’s complete poetic works, it argues that the poetic sense in the way Rifat performs and textualizes it is produced as a non-economic excess. The sense as a non-economic excess unfolds within the framework of contemporary thought (Derrida, Malabou, Stiegler). According to Rifat, sense is a movement that is unrepresentable and impossible to present within a verbal structure. Poetic sense is conceived in three main metaphysical dimensions: Space, time, nature. Oktay Rifat spatialized the poetic sense in the figure of shoreline. Shoreline functions as an emblem so as to mark the limit of presence. The figures of beginning as the way the sense is temporalized shows that time does not work in the mode of chronological succession but instead it entails a peculiar dynamic which is fully open to self differentiation. Rifat’s intransitive type of beginnings unfolds the spacing between poetic text and presence. Beside space and time, the third dimension in which sense revolves around is the irreducible distance between nature and technology. Nature is never natural, but always already technological. Poetic sense as an non-economic excess is produced at where nature surpasses itself. Thus the poetic sense in Oktay Rifat’s poetry shows an essentially prosthetic and plastic character.Item The representation of Abdülhamid II's era in the post 1908 plays in the national tragedy genre(Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2022., 2022.) İbidan, Zuhal; Köroğlu, Erol.; Dicle Başbuğ, Esra.This dissertation examines the political-documentary (siyasal-belgesel) theater plays written between 1908-1914. I aimed to carry out the textual analysis of the thirty-three plays, on which the dissertation is built, in a holistic way in the light of the data presented by the period's citizenship course books, Ottoman Archive documents, Tanin newspaper, Aşiyan and Millet ile Musahabe magazines. In addition, support was obtained from secondary literature. This dissertation suggests that the political documentary theater texts are the main tools used by the Committee of Union and Progress (CUP/ITC) government in the process of creating the ideal world and its members with the proclamation of the 2nd Constitutional Monarchy. This dissertation also suggests that the plays, which began to be written after the Second Constitutional Monarchy declared in 1908 and whose content and scope were shaped by the Counter Revolution (Karşı Devrim/31 Mart Vakası) in 1909 and the Balkan Wars of 1912-1913, were formed as a result of the change in the mentality of the state. In this context, the role of ideology in the creation of the ideal world and ideal member that the CUP mentality aimed at through a new discourse by instrumentalizing the theater, making use of the possibilities of the stage, was specifically examined. The dissertation is built on two main pillars. First of all, political and historical events were evaluated in order to make sense of the changing mentality of the period in which these texts were written. Considering the French Revolution, which is frequently emphasized as an example in the plays, as well as the Iranian and Russian Revolutions, the relationship between revolution, ideology and theater is approached from a comparative perspective. Then, detailed reading of the plays was carried out in the context of conceptual and genre discussions. These texts are characterized by derogatory expressions such as “shallow, empty, fashionable” in most of the theatrical literature. Although they are utopian, as a result of conceptual and generic reading, it is understood that these texts are very powerful propaganda products that were presented as if they were historical documents, with an effort to make the masses believe in the illusion created, thanks to the many elements these texts contained, as a part of the efforts of the period power to create the “revolutionary members of the community” (cemaatin devrimci efradı).