Browsing by Author "Aslan, Pelin."

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    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.
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    Hasan Ali Toptaş'ın romanlarındaki "arayış"ın postmodern yüzü
    (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2004., 2004.) Aslan, Pelin.; Esen, Nüket,
    Postmodernism, which questions and criticizes modernism and its values, brings new approaches to literature. The author neither reflects the outside world nor tells about his/her inner life in this new approach of polyphonic literature in which everything and their opposites are presented together simultaneously. In postmodernist literature which emphasizes not content but fiction, reality is questioned, borders between fiction and reality are erased, possible worlds are produced, author narratorcharacters in the texts always turn into each other, so they lose their identities, texts are in active play explain their creation process to their readers and expect their readers to share this process. In this study, postmodernist approaches to literature will be studied through "quest" adventure in Hasan Ali Toptaş's novels. Each "quest" in these novels reflects postmodern narration and shows that the writer reaches postmodern narration which makes all kinds of existence possible.